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Kathmandu
Travel Blogs from Kathmandu, Nepal
Up Up Up
This is a top pick! We had to be up and moving and across the river before 8am today as tons of army boys had appeared in town the day before in readiness for blastion out more of the rock for the 'road'. News had spread so all the trekkers wsere up and having breaky at ...
More sightseeing in Kathnamdu
This is a top pick! Slowly recovering from the EBC trek. Mostly sightseeing and bar hopping in ...
Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... off the Kathmandu bus, both or our throats were burning from god knows what type of pollutant. The breathing issue aside, Kathmandu at first looked like all the other quasi asian cities that we've visited with the requisite tourist ghetto, streets lined ...
Tour de Tibet - Part 3
This is a top pick! ... a good plan since we were dressed more for the dry windy weather of Tibet, not the humid heat of Nepal. From Dologhat we took a ride into Kathmandu. The further we rode towards Kathmandu the more catching this last ride seemed like a good idea. In ...
Everest Expedition - Part I
This is a top pick! ... to walk. The closest you can get to Everest by road is to a place called Jiri. Jiri is a 12 hour bus journey from Kathmandu - only 120 miles, so you can imagine the state of the roads, we also had to pass through army roadblocks, where all the locals ...
Koming to Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... pump for the hotels showers and toilets was just outside my room) it was a reasonable place to stay with good staff. Throwing down my pack, I wandered out for my first day of many on the streets of Kathmandu and began my love affair with this ...
Dasain
This is a top pick! ... and playing AC/DC or Avril Lavigne on their tape decks: a time of freedom symbolized in the kites and swings. I stayed in Kathmandu until the climax of the festival--the tenth day--when good conquors evil. On that day, Ram, an incarnation of ...
Kathmandu - Day 52
This is a top pick! ... day. Went out in the evening to listen to some live music and had few cheeky beers. My last night in Kathmandu, so I thought why not. I've really enjoyed my stay in Nepal, wish I had more time to explore this beautiful mountainous ...
Chilling Out in Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... on the dancefloor. Today we hired bikes and cycled to Monkey Temple, which is a temple high up on the hillside above Kathmandu, the views were spectacular and the monkeys were very entertaining. On Thursday I had to say goodbye to Hamish who's flying ...
Stoned Sadhus and Burning Bodies - Pashupatinath
This is a top pick! ... was the Hindu festival of Shivaratri ("Night of Shiva"). This was being held at Pashupatinath, the most sacred Shiva temple in Nepal. Over a million people were expected to attend the ceremony, and on the surrounding streets it felt like it. The taxi ...
Chilling in Kathmandu
This is a top pick! I'm taking a bit of a rest in Kathmandu before I head out to Everest Base Camp in couple of days. The temperature here dropped for a day, so not having a blow drier was a bummer. The guy at the reception said they can't help me, but perhaps I can ...
Happy Birthday Old Man
This is a top pick! After being misused by elephants and hassling rhinos, it was time to return to Kathmandu. I had purchased a plane ticket to Bangkok leaving June 23, the day after my birthday. My previous birthday had been in a miserable little border town in Tanzania ...
Kathmandu Conmen Part Deux
This is a top pick! ... straight down the end of the road to a lonely planet recommended café and had lattes and apple pie. 400m higher Kathmandu is noticibly colder than Pokara and wandering round later to get the passports back from the travel agent and find out more ...
I don't think we're in India anymore
This is a top pick! ... at that point is a 3 day tourist visa gratis. Thankfully we can get the regular 30 day visa in the immigration office in Kathmandu. Having cleared the border with the skin of our teeth we hurry it along to catch the last evening bus out of the border ...
adventures of Pshemek Sherpa
This is a top pick! ... hunger. I quickly retire to my room instead of ordering more food, I wolf down biscuits which I brought with me from Kathmandu. I actually brought several boxes along with several bars of chocolate and an entire bag of coconut and cashew trail mix in ...
Kathmandu - Day 37
This is a top pick! ... feeling really ropey, haven't eaten anything for days now. Really weak, just hope things improve soon. The depressing thing is Nepal is the country I'm most looking forward too on my travels and I only have just under three weeks in this mountain ...
Kathmandu - Day 38
This is a top pick! Haven't showered, smoked, eaten or even brushed my teeth for 3 days. I plan to experience all of the above today. The no smoking certainly proved I was seriously ill. Thankfully feeling a lot more human this morning, even managed to leave my room. I ...
Kathmandu - Day 39
This is a top pick! ... . Went out just before the deluge began and drunk black tea in a Chinese styled pagoda which is build round a small tree in the Kathmandu guest house. Need to go and speak to the trekking agency to decide what to do with my remaining two weeks in ...
Kathmandu - Day 40
This is a top pick! ... ! Had some serious negotiations with a taxi driver this morning to take me to Patan, which is an adjoining city to Kathmandu with some amazing Newar kingdom architecture and art. We did the deal and I jumped in the cab, on the way saw Maoist ...
Re-invention of the television
This is a top pick! ... life! Here they really know how to cater for us veggies - we are simply in food heaven. We spent our first 3 days in Kathmandu, catching up on e-mails and some sleep, from there we headed 1.5 hours away to the town of Nagarkot. Nagarkot sits atop a ...
Killin' Time In Kathmandu..
This is a top pick! ... our best to eat our way through the place. Anyways, apart from the obvious distractions there is some serious sightseeing in Kathmandu to accomplish. From Durbar Square to the Monkey Temple you can waste a few days just losing yourself in this ...
Made it! but cant see the mountains for the trees.
This is a top pick! ... your 30s Craig! So the next day we had to drag our sorry arses out of bed and pack our bags for our short trip to Nepal. We managed to get a van to the airport with about 6 gay guys - all from different pick up points (how is that statistically ...
Dharamsala delights
This is a top pick! ... staying at Manchester United. I left there determined to make it into Tibet itself, but now that I have arrived in Kathmandu I find that the Nepal-Tibet border (whether by air or overland) has been closed for at least at month due to SARS, even ...
Krazy About Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... on the stairs and trees around. Reach the top and you are rewarded with magnificent views over Kathmandu and perhaps the most iconic temple of Nepal. Wander around, looking at prayer candles, and watching young and old monks and hundreds of tourists ...
UNESCO sites amidst the chaos
This is a top pick! ... an Indian VISA in Kathmandu it takes a minimum of six days and thats if everything goes well. Historical exploring around Kathmandu seems to centre on numerous red-brick islands of UNESCO World Heritage Sites surrounded by the ever-expanding chaos, ...
Flipflop, Goldfinger, the two diddies and I
This is a top pick! Before trek we 'rested' in Kathmandu (first decent opportunity to neck some beers after a month and half of Islam). Great tourist city, really enjoyed it and still am. Trek stats: Lukla (2800m 70% relative oxygen) to Kalapattar (5550m 50%!!!! relative ...
it must be the light
This is a top pick! ... give me enough time to really enjoy the Khumbu region and provide ample time to get back to Kathmandu and head on to Pokhara in central Nepal for Christmas. The profusion of tourist attractions, hang outs, and sights is overwhelming here. Having ...
The calm before the storm
This is a top pick! ˇ Kathmandu, Nepal ˇ GMT + 5.75hrs ˇ Altitude: 4,400ft (1,337 metres) Kathmandu - The return We weren't feeling the best getting out of bed at 6am yesterday morning, our 4th early morning in as many days (isn't this supposed to be a holiday?). ...
Om Mani Padme Hum from Nepal
This is a top pick! Hello to everyone from the Mystical Kingdom of Nepal! We arrived in the capital, Kathmandu, on February 27th and instantly fell in love with the place ... I know we've said that about every single country we've gone to, but this time it's real, true ...
Long and lazy with more food
This is a top pick! ... to go into Suwarma Mahavihara or Golden Temple which is an impressive small Buddhist monastery. Far nicer than Durbar Square Kathmandu. Durbar Square - Bhaktapur It costs an outrageous $10 for tourists to even see the small town centre of ...