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- Kathmandu
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- Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
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Kathmandu Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kathmandu, Nepal
Day 23: Taxi Strike
This is a top pick! ... Durbar," a major tourist landmark on the other side of the city. Whoops. I hopped on the next bus back to central Kathmandu, got completely lost again, gave up and hired a taxi. While I was disoriented, I still had a general sense of the ...
Back to Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... spend at Pokhara which wouldn't have been possible which is how we'd felt with our extra days in Chitwan and then around the Kathmandu Valley. It's also made Kimberly keen to come back to complete the circuit in the future and as she's a fitness freak ...
Bodhnath
This is a top pick! ... orders for embroidered t-shirts and decided to escape for the afternoon. Hopping in a taxi, we headed to the centre of Buddhism in Nepal; Bodhnath. This is one of the largest stupas in the world, and is home to a thriving Tibetan community. The stupa was ...
Ghorepani and the Sunrise of Poon Hill
This is a top pick! ... . They were walking up to Jomsom - the reverse direction of our trek. Poon Hill is why 'everyone' goes to Ghorepani. People going to Nepal know of the sunrise and views of Poon Hill and that it is the must see spot if you only have a few days to ...
Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... I got a deal to reach Kathmandu. A bus from Varanasi to the border, overnight in Nepal, and then a connecting bus to Kathmandu. The roads in Nepal were rough. Landslides and flooding along the river washed out the roads, so the going was slow. 9 hours to ...
Day 20: VSN Orphanage Pizza Party
This is a top pick! ... Mexico during his youth. He came to Nepal to accompany her on an Everest trek before she joined VSN, and was so culture shocked by Kathmandu that he changed his flight to return to the US a week early. lulz Emily seems to be liking "KTM" well enough; ...
A Very Different Flag
This is a top pick! ... back for the taxi fares we'd incurred due to his miscommunications. His right hand man Pasan helped us check into the Kathmandu Prince Hotel. Craving different tastes, we decided to split up for a very late lunch. Sylvia took her third crack ...
Days 30-31: Sushaan's 5th Birthday!
This is a top pick! ... bus services for most of the past week. Violent fuel protests & tire burnings broke out in the poorer sections of Kathmandu virtually every day for the past half-a-week... I'm thinking it's time for another conveniently-timed mountain trek soon, but ...
Day 9: Alan Lee's Croissants
This is a top pick! Not much happened on Friday. Woke up, ate breakfast, stopped at the orphanage but all the kids were in school, then just chilled around theVSN office for a bit trying & failing to upload some more pictures. I returned home around 3 to attend a big ...
Day 32: Transport Lockdown Continues
This is a top pick! ... up around OCRC's neighborhood and its adjacent medical clinic, hopefully rallying what little help the impoverished local community can give. Kathmandu Medical College, one of the best hospitals in the city, is literally right next door to the orphanage, ...
Again and again and again and...
This is a top pick! ... to the Pesach seder (that's the passover dinner for all you uneducated heathens...um, I mean non-Jews...) in Kathmandu. For those who care, Nepal and India are the places almost every single Israeli seems to come after they finish their army service. ...
Day 29: Cow Poop & Calamine
This is a top pick! ... hangouts to date, with many giggles about toxic Indian beaches (the Brits were planning on traveling there after Nepal) and scary flights into Kathmandu. Apparently the pilot on Andy's flight circled the city for hours until the weather cleared, invoking ...
Roof surfing!
This is a top pick! ... from there or 3) thumb a ride from the next available coach that passes us and see if we could blagg a lift to Kathmandu...... option 3 got a majority vote so the girls hitched up their trouser legs and began thumbing, as did we all!!!! The next few ...
All I Did In Kathmandu...
This is a top pick! ... to meet my parents in Istanbul. Luckily I was just starting to feel better by then since we had quite a flight schedule: Kathmandu to Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi to Bahrain Bahrain to Istanbul I have to say Gulf Air made it quite bearable, even putting us ...
Interview with a Nepali Waiter-cum-philosopher
This is a top pick! The following is the transcript of an interview with a Kathmandu waiter-cum-philosopher about the future of Nepal, which has been entrenched in a civil war in which over 15,000 people have died. Currently, the Maoists and Coalition Government are ...
Catching up in Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... with cash and that there were no ATMs open... We had arranged an airport pickup and so met our driver, who took us into Kathmandu (without a visa folks...) to get some cash and then back to the airport... We went up to the counter, Nepalese Rupees in ...
*Day 44: The Wrath of Phenyl
This is a top pick! ... aims and dreams were definitely one of the subjects. Sleep followed soon after. I should note that of all the western comforts Nepal lacks and I miss, mattresses have surprisingly not been one of them. My sleep has been just as good on their dinky ...
A gut-bustin' not-so-good time in Kathmandu....
This is a top pick! ... that may prove useful in the job hunt... Fortunately for our revved-up metabolisms, compared to the options in Tibet, Kathmandu is a culinary metropolis, with every type of food available...if the restaurants are allowed to be open. We arrived two ...
Tales of Three Cities
This is a top pick! ... if at all"? Together, we went to Swayambhunath, a hilltop Buddhist stupa, walking through the busy, loud streets of Kathmandu, dodging Freedom Motorcycles, pedestrians, dogs, cows, and chickens along the way, crossing a foul river and breathing some ...
Kathman-DO and Kathman-DONT
This is a top pick! .Ladies and Gentlemen, Crocs have officially made it huge in the world. We saw a shop in Thamel Kathmandu that has a massive selection of Crocs. All you fellow Coloradoans will remember a day just 2 years ago or so when Crocs were that rediculous ...
Krazy Kathmandu!
This is a top pick! ... away for fear that we wouldn't see TV again. We needn't have worried, as we stepped back into the world when we entered Kathmandu. But alongside the western influences, KMD manages to keep its own unique character. I never saw McDonald's or KFC (which is ...
Namaste
This is a top pick! ... at the airport. He looked like the Nepalese version of Joe Pesci. We got in a taxi and he asked about our Nepal plans while the taxi driver weaved his way through the crazy streets, narrowly missing cars, rickshaws and pedestrians through much horn ...
Jharkot and Eklabhatti and Disaster Strikes
This is a top pick! ... ; Rob just ordered an Apple Brandy to try but they cant find it in the dark..hahaha. I offered them my head torch..ha .. ..so tomorrow onto Marpha (if Rob is up to it) - the apple capital of Nepal and where all the good apple brandy comes ...
Kathmandu...eventually!
This is a top pick! You know what they say about the best laid plans... I did not bed down as anticipated in Kathmandu on Sunday. Border formalities completed, I learned that buses north had been temporarily suspended due to landslides caused by an over-excited monsoon. ...
Nepal volunteering report #1
This is a top pick! ... stint. They are completely wonderful - charming, hospitable, happy and generous to a fault. On our first full day in Kathmandu we visited Thamel, the touristy area of town. The bus there is jampacked but we squeeze on anyway. The ...
Volunteering report #3
This is a top pick! ... minute drive from the city campus, perched on the side of one of the many steep hills that form the natural border of the Kathmandu Valley. Jane and I are both a bit anxious in the car. We hardly know anything about this place, have the ...
Sadhus, Dhal Bhat and Luxuriously Thick Air
This is a top pick! Factoid: From Kathmandu Post: "KATHMANDU, Dec 30 - The World Bank Nepal Office today refuted a recent news report putting Kathmandu on the top of the 17 Asian cities with the dirtiest air" these guys have never been to China! (or Bangkok for that ...
Volunteering report #2
This is a top pick! ... Hindu temple; Swayambounath, a Buddhist temple on a hill, accessed by 365 steps representing the days of the year; and Patan, Kathmandu's twin city and formerly an independent state, now almost frozen in time like it was when it as captured in ...
Volunteering report #4
This is a top pick! Rajesh drives through the backstreets of Kathmandu, a labyrinth of rocky paths with barely enough room for one car to squeeze through. He is avoiding the main roads because of a massive gathering downtown. The leader of the Maoist Party is making his ...
Traffic jam from Hell
This is a top pick! 25.9.06 Kathmandu Nepal This was another full day of driving for us and we were looking forward to arriving in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, as the temperature would be cooler. Nepal only has an area of 147,181 sq km which we have been up and down ...