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Nepalgunj Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Nepalgunj, Nepal
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Whitewater rafting, or stillwater floating?
This is a top pick! We headed from Chitwan back to Pokhara to jump on a whitewater adventure which all of the brochures and travel agents had been harping to us about. Three days and two nights of thrills, spills and fun in the sun: we were psyched. Anyway, we rocked up ...
Drink, get drunk and be merry!
This is a top pick! ... a young girl (english) asks us to walk her to her hotel. Being drunken gents that we were we of course accepted her offer but Nepal at this time of night isn't dangerous so I guess she just wanted the company! The long and short was we went back to her ...
Sanctury Sojorn - packs, paths, peaks and pizza
This is a top pick! ... shoulders...The next days walking was up through a fabulous mossy, green rainforest, we saw more birds than anywhere else in Nepal including a pied Himalayan woodpecker... on the track we passed (in the other direction thankfully) a few groups, two French ...
White water madness!!!
This is a top pick! What do you get if you cross 2 English men, an Israelie couple (they get everywhere don't they!), a half german half Russian and a Spaniard? 6 nutters who want to risk life and limb on one of Nepals most dangerous and highly graded rivers!!! Ok, the ...
The mother of all Journeys!! HELL
... was going on Hindi music was absolutely blaring out of the bus speakers deafening us!!!! After approx 15 hours we finally arrived near Nepal Ganj and all had to change buses, not that we were that sorry!!! but this did result in further delays and the ...
The back of beyond ...
... let go and its dry within seconds..same with your clothes, we didnt realise that this is actually the hottest part of Nepal..... always being a few degrees hotter than anywhere else!! we havent spotted one European since we arrived. This place is not on ...
Keep on trekking...
... , you get lost and you... Well you die is the end result of such mistakes at five and a half thousand metres in the Nepal Himalaya. A German trekker who is experienced on the Annapurna circuit told me that about three tourists die every year at Thorung-La ...
sniffle sniffle...Nepal
Well this is it...I finally leaving my home for a month for india tomorrow. I will never forget the kindness, the beauty, and of course dahl baht! I am in Khatmandu again and am going to the orphange and VSN to finally say goodbye. wish me ...
Tigers, oh my.
We woke up in the morning on the way to Royal Bardia National Park, we understood we were close when we started seeing elephants on the way. We got to the Jungle Cottage right near the park entrence, had a beer and some lunch and went out for a jungle ...
To Nepalgunj in far W Terai
16 Feb 80 Deadheading on flight deck of Twin Otter flight to Nepalgunj a town in the far west of Nepal in the Terai. The Terai is the name for the southern most region of Nepal. It is actually part of the Gangetic plain and is only about 300 ft. above ...
Travel Traumas
... to get an engineer to look at the engine before taking off again....no so reassuring is that they don't have any engineers at Nepalgunj airport, so we had to wait for someone to fly in from Kathmandu.....the next day. I did finally get on a servicable ...
Vetting the bride to be!!
... ' with Sangita as her and her friends remained inside...her mum is in hospital with the fever, the nearest hospital being in Nepal Ganj........ I immediately became aware that she was not happy, she was near to tears and although she had no English, she ...
because it's there" - climbing a mountain in nepal
I just finished an eight day trek in western Nepal, in an area called the Annapurna range. If I had been any good at math (meters to feet conversions) I am quite sure I never would have chosen to go to anywhere near the the Annapurna Base ...
Dec 16, 2009
Row, row, row our raft....
... it felt like we were in the middle of nowhere, with our campsite, with no one around as it would seem but not so in Nepal. There was a tiny path behind us (there are tiny paths everywhere, their ways to get around) that went along the ...
Bardia National Park; Tiger Quest
... about his upcoming studies in South Korea, his love of journalism, his feminist ideas and struggles to eliminate all prejudice in Nepal (including coercing his high ranking caste grandmother to eat with people of the lowest caste). SBF did ...
Hiking in the Himalayas
We spent 5 days hiking in the Annapurna ranges of the Himalayas. The views were fantastic and the experience unforgettable. One of the most memorable experience for me was during our first day of hiking. The group called it a day fairly early so John, ...
Return to Eden. Bardia National Park
... park before it flows south to join the Ganges whilst, to the north, the Chure hills form a distinct geological region of Nepal. The facts and figures relating to the park are astounding enough however, what is truly astonishing is that hardly anyone has ...
On the trail of the Gangetic dolphin
October 13th - Royal Bardia National Park, Nepal Yesterday we went on a day-long jungle hike with a Kiwi couple and Padam, our guide. Although more physically challenging than the boating trip, the dividend paid in wildlife sightings was meagre by ...
17 hour bus ride to Bardia National Park
... . So I found a reasonably secluded area and did my thing. On the bus we had met Paul, an Australian traveling for a bit in Nepal. The Nepali man sitting next to him had befriended him and began to offer all three of us various things. First it was some ...
Bike, Elephants and kids
After sleeping in and having a nice breakfast outside we just relaxed till around 2pm. Simon worked on some of the pictures from the previous days and I read "The Hobbit" which I had picked up in Pokhara. Around 2pm we took the short cut through the rice ...
Med urejanjem indijske vize in po tem...
Pridobivanje indijske vize se je izkazalo za dolg in izredno kompliciran proces v primerjavi s pridobivanji viz za vse ostale drzave, ki sva jih obiskala do zdej. Po izpolnjenemu forumu na spletu (mimogrede, ze to je v Kathmanduju pri vseh izpadih ...
Boti Kosi
The Boti Kosi runs from Tibet into nepal. We traveled via bus to a town which should have been 3 hours away. It ended up being 5 due to protesters. We had to take a detour over a mountain top in a bus! It was a bit hair raising but i find these this a bit ...
Dr Wind i de Hoor und d Sunne im Gsicht
... Dach. So kam es, dass wir 10 Stunden auf dem Dach eines nepalesischen Expressbusses sassen. Wir liessen das laendliche Nepal an uns vorueberziehen. Die knallig hellgelben Rapsfelder, die Heuschoechel so weit das Auge reicht, die Alltagsszenen: Frauen am ...
Elephant Ride
Today we only had to wake up at 6am, haha, which wasn't so bad. We had our breakfast and then walked over with Indra to the park headquarters where our elephant would pick us up. On the way Indra found a small bottle of rum, just lying in the road. Haha, ...
Un ptit coin d'paradis...
Donc je descends du bus de Nepalgunj, apres deux controles de police et m'etre fait fouille mon sac pour la 2nde fois de la journee, mais gratuitement ce coup ci. Il est 19h, je descends la ou on me dit etre mon arret sauf qu'il fait nuit noire et que je ...
Simons walk, my day of rest
The alarm went off and Simon got ready for his day in the jungle. Camera gear ready, water filled, sun hat, and space to pack his "Tiger Lunch". I hadn't mentioned it before, but the packed lunches were fantastic. There were a few options, but the best ...
1st relaxing day in Bardia
Eventually we arrived at the hotel and were guided to the garden and one of the grass roof covered tables. We gratefully sat down and drank our welcome milk tea. The man introduced himself as Santos and showed us our room. It was very nice, in the local ...
Simons 4th and my 3rd Jungle Walk
It was very dark when we woke up and we groggily got ready. On the way to the dining hall I sneakily grabbed one of the small wrapped up hammocks that was blueish grey and stuffed it into my back pack, and didn't tell anyone about it. I figured I would ...
Quiet Day
On the 5th I did nothing but write all the stories from the past few days, while they were fresh in my mind. I sat outside under the grass thatch roof, my feet up on a chair, sipping coke as I wrote. It was a beautiful day with birds and butterflies ...
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