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Nepal Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Nepal
Himalayan Trek Day 11: Lobuche To Gorak Shep
This is a top pick! Gorak Shep Altitude: 5,140 m What We Wore To Bed The Night Before: Sylvia: sports bra, t-shirt, wool long sleeve, second long sleeve, fleece, buff, headlamp, toque, underwear, wool long johns, pants, socks Jason: t-shirt, wool long sleeve, short ...
Chess on Tost
This is a top pick! After returning to Dingboche for a night, we walked up to Thukla. In the snow. We could see where we were going (useful considering the very steep drop to our left) and walked on a very wide slope, so we could stay well away from the edge and any ...
A bad day for goats
This is a top pick! ... of people that desperately sought to escape Kathmandu after the blockade, and jumped on a local bus to Gorkha, the old capital of Nepal, and the birthplace of the famous soldiers of the same name who are eagerly poached by the British SAS. The story goes ...
A resort all to ourselves
This is a top pick! ... day in Pokhara we decided to demonstrate our unadventurousness and go and do something mundane- like golf. We forgot that in Nepal nothing is mundane. The Himalaya golf course is an 18 hole course that appears normal enough at first. Despite the heat ...
Relaxation and World Heritage City
This is a top pick! ... the adventure as mum would say. Bhaktapur is Nepals most visited day trip and is just about compulsory for anyone coming to Nepal. Most tourists come by tourist but from Kathmandu arriving at about 10.30am and leaving at 4pm for the return trip. That ...
Everest...Up Close and Personal
This is a top pick! It was 11.45 a.m., Wednesday 24th October. It had been a 2 ½ hour walk to get here from Gorakshep. It had been a 9 day walk to Gorakshep. I'd been anticipating this moment for over a year. Huge numbers of people had generously sponsored me on this ...
Everest Three Passes - What a Trek!
This is a top pick! ... commodity become rarer still.' Could there be any more convincing reasons to fight climate change?! Costs: Expensive for Nepal. Wonderfully most lodges charged a standard 200NPR (£2) per night for a twin room, but costs of food and drink ...
High as a kite
This is a top pick! ... 'borrowed' from the airport cafe suffices as a celebratory chalice. A backdrop of legendary peaks, the inpenetrable border between Nepal and Tibet. At round 6.20an, Everest comes into view, pretty much eyeball to eyeball with Sagarmatha (Goddess of ...
Two Days in Hot Springs Country
This is a top pick! Another beautiful day for trekking... About an hour before we reached Tatopani the path became a real mess and the path just disappeared under rubble. We had to pick our way through the slatty rubble which slid (and which was sloping) and we thought of ...
Day 6: The Hill
This is a top pick! ... continued on his merry way once the mob moved on. Crazy stuff, but it never affects quiet little Pepsi-ColaTown. Nepal isn't a very unified country; if one city goes crazy, another might not even hear about it let alone give a ...
Day 7: The King Deposed
This is a top pick! ... day, good for both me and the country. Nepalis officially a free country! The King has been given fifteen days to get out of Dodge. Yay for Nepal. I'd muse about this a bit more but someone needs the computer. ...
Himalayan Trek Day 8: Gokyo Ri
This is a top pick! Gokyo Ri Altitude: 5,360 m We set out just before 5:00 am to climb Gokyo Ri. As the sun slowly rose we were provided with splendid views of the emerald green lakes, Cho Oyo and, of course, Everest. Sylvia's cold got worse and so did Jason's ...
Cards at the top of the world
This is a top pick! Travelling from Luza to Gokyo, the scenery became more rocky and wild and the valley closed in. We were trekking beside streams and waterfalls of clear water, refreshingly cool to splash on my face. In places where the rock had worn away, the water ...
Days 35-39: The Tikka
This is a top pick! ... wind. ---Vital Signs--- Yetis Hunted = 15 Foot = Almost Healed Food Poisonings = 0 Possible Lice = Wasn't lice, just a dry scalp. Days Remaining in Nepal = 6 at the time of writing (Wed) Gift Status = Two secured, two other requests almost ...
Om Mani Padme Hum
This is a top pick! ... the Hiroshima bomb, is also on the site. The sheer size of the whole park is pretty incredible and we spent a good few hours walking around it all. Lumbini town is a pretty unremarkable place but it was a nice and easy start to our time in Nepal. ...
Chilling in Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... young pick-pockets too, their eyes darting from dangling Nikon to bulging money-belt. En route to Swayambunath Stupa we crossed Nepal's most sacred river, the Bagmati River, which assaulted our nostrils way before we set eyes on it. Its banks were solid ...
Relaxing Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... . I was feeling pretty flat so we walked around it slowly then went up on a roof top restaurnat (yep everybuilding in Nepal has put in a rooftop restaurant..bloody steps...) hee... for some tea and veggie momos - delicious before making our way back ...
One big black Aeroplane and Nepal
This is a top pick! ... our Nepalese adventure i will fill you in with everything between lying in bed with a bad foot and touchdown in Nepal :) Well my foot healed up fine, i started to feel fine so we booked up a three day ...
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 ...
Himalayan Trek Day 16: Hiking High Again
This is a top pick! It was Jason's mother's birthday. We had muesli with fruit, hot milk and honey with tea and chapati bread for breakfast. Feeling somewhat indecisive about what to do, we decided to go for another walk with KC high above the town. The climb was ...
Himalayan Trek Day 7: Machermo To Gokyo
This is a top pick! Gokyo Altitude: 4,790 m Room temperature dipped to its lowest for the whole trek, -3 degrees. The water in our bottles partially froze. Jason's toes were freezing all night and we also had a snoring contest. We slowly ascended alongside the ...
Last turn of lingering worm
This is a top pick! ... the worm nurtured itself quietly in the belly of this beast, until the permanent passport eventually pitched just before entering Nepal . In the interim, however, the worst case-scenario reared it's f**ing little head. It's the Olympic year, ...
Himalayan Trek Day 12: Gorak Shep To Dingboche
This is a top pick! Dingboche Altitude: 4,410 m Starting at 4:30 am, Jason climbed Kala Pattar with Sonam. The full moon lit the way and it felt like a long, tough slog but we were on top before 6:00. The sun rose slowly, colouring the sky in bands of orange and ...
Out of India
This is a top pick! ... next year or so but it was surprising for India)! Once we finally made it to Sonauli leaving the country and entering Nepal was very unceremonious. Everyone crowding around a table at Indian Immigration, no one really knowing who was being dealt ...
Day 2: The Mutant Rat
This is a top pick! The sound of cows & roosters & farm stuff woke me up around 5am and I lied in bed dozing until 7ish. Then there was a knock on the door and the grandfather barged on in chuckling and shouting gibberish, giving the official wakeup call. He saw ...
first impressions of Nepal
This is a top pick! ... tells us about our first week which includes bungee jumping or canyoning (both optional - thank goodness says John), crossing the Nepal/Tibet border (an interesting way to spend our third wedding anniversary) and reaching Everest base camp. John and I ...
Days 25-26: The Wedding
This is a top pick! Very little happened on Sunday, so I shall write little about it. A transport strike* trapped us three non-safari volunteers in Pepsikola, so no OCRC time, and a particularly severe monsoon storm trapped us indoors. Melissa & I tried painting the ...
Day 27: Resam Phiriri
This is a top pick! This entry is gonna be a bit rushed, I'm due for dal bhat soon and want to catch up on blogness:Melissa left for good today, shedding many bittersweet tears with us and Druba, who she'd become quite close with. This marked the third time so far ...
Day 33: The Weight-Loss Blues
This is a top pick! We joined the Brits on their daily shift at Landless Clinic today, if only to see and experience the riverside shantytown it serves. Landless (the neighborhood) itself wasn't quite as bad as I expected... many of the homes had brick or concrete walls, ...
Nepal!! Woohoo!!!
This is a top pick! ... we halted our journey for a nights rest. It was a dirty, unappealing town and hardly what one would expect, having arrived into Nepal!! But luckily, we already knew that this place was in no way a reflection of the rest of the country.... We merely ...