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- Kathmandu
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- Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
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- 25,284,463
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Kathmandu Slideshow
Kathmandu
Travel Blogs from Kathmandu, Nepal
A Trip to Pokhara
This is a top pick! ... his video camera to work, which didn't really matter as we weren't on anyway. (We'd gone for breakfast at Mike's Place in Kathmandu last week, which is a famous climbers hangout. We didn't meet any climbers but we did meet a film crew for Nepal TV who ...
To Everest Base camp to Nepalise Border.
This is a top pick! We had made it to "EVEREST BASE CAMP", the last 7 km a steep walk with a Tibetian family the ladies who were very interested in Heike's sun cream; but jumped and shreaked when the pump action spay was let loose. The men just smiled and kept rotating ...
The Jomsom Trek
This is a top pick! ... thirst. ;) 10 minutes after breakfast one of those sublimely unreal travel moments happened. Beside the concertina wire of the Nepal Mountain Combat trainng centre I heard an oriental voice calling out "Please stop! Hold on please!" I expected to ...
From Hell to Heaven in Six Days Flat
This is a top pick! ... Leon, the Fountain of Youth, or Drury discovering Vancouver in a B.C. wasteland. Wonderful teeming urban chaos is Kathmandu. Cars, bicycles, rickshaws and motorcycles scurry about the narrow streets all speeding within centimetres of one another and ...
lady luck is a tibetan goddess
This is a top pick! ... much as i enjoyed china, i felt myself smiling wide as i walked in thamel, the bustling, wonderfully crowded backpacker quarter of kathmandu. i'm really happy to be back in south asia...something about it suits me better than china to the east. we have ...
MOUNTAINS, MONKS AND LEECHES
This is a top pick! ... (not all involving Tibetan plumbing) Giant arachnids Blood sucking invertebrates Extremely cold appendages Interested? Read on....... We left Kathmandu bright and early and headed up (down?) the KTM valley to the town of Baktapur. This has ...
YAKS, PEAKS AND PASSES
This is a top pick! ... uphill. Then a rest day in Namche - allegedly for acclimatisation but actually because Namche is such a great place to chill. The "Kathmandu 2 step" finally caught up with Nick here - thank God we paid extra for flushing toilets! Namche to Dole ...
Kathmandu volunteering report #5
This is a top pick! ... her. The Principal even arranged for Jane to run a three-day workshop for pre-school teachers from schools all around Kathmandu. Her knowledge of 'Early Childhood Education' makes her jut about the most educated teacher in Nepal and people are falling ...
Trekking and Stuff in Nepal
This is a top pick! ... good although a little uncomfortable after more than 2 hours. From Saurauha, we endured a very dusty, bumpy ride of 6 hours to Kathmandu. The road wound and bumped along, often it was just a rough, rocky, narrow path after the many land and rock ...
Stuck in the Kat
This is a top pick! ... to India. We enjoyed it but to me, it was slightly tacky as there were loads of shops selling Budhist paraphernalia. Durbar Square Kathmandu The square costs to get in, but the ticket office does not seem to stop us we enter. There are loads of old ...
From Lhasa to Nepal via EVEREST!
This is a top pick! ... through all the Tata trucks, exhaust and copious amounts of dust. We spent our first night in Nepal in Barabise as there was no direct bus to Kathmandu. Happily, right now is one of their prettiest frestivals, Deepawali with fairy lights and candles in ...
Katmandu
This is a top pick! Staying at the Hotel Utse in Katmandu. It is run by Tibetans. Apparently, a large population of displaced Tibetans live in Nepal. It is approximately 50% Buddhist here and 50% Hindu and some Muslim too. Katmandu reminds me quite a bit of Central American ...
Same subcontinent, totally different country
This is a top pick! ... Calarissian from Star Wars. Our first stop is at Rajesh's house to drop off some stuff. His house, in Kathmandu's wealthy area, is absolutely massive. It is three storeys high with thick doric columns leading into a spotless marble ...
Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... 14th to the 17th centuries but some as early as the 11th, and a royal palace which was built after 1768 when Nepal was unified with Kathmandu as its capital. The architecture is interesting and displays the status of the city as a key centre on the ...
slowing down
This is a top pick! ... just finished their own tour through tibet and were in the company of many of the people that had shared their van to nepal. we arrived back in kathmandu on the evening of greg's 30th birthday and were happy to be able to join in the festivities. our time ...
HEY DJ!! Party in Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... men in our lives. There were police with rifles and shotguns patrolling the floors making sure no Maoists blew up the cream of Kathmandu society (and us dirty backpackers). Most people here are so used to this after 7 years of war that they barely even ...
Krazy Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... beer) than it was when mark was here last(in 1999); also with the maoists and the monsoon, heaps quieter as well. Kathmandu is a fantastically historical city; you cna be walking down any random street, and see ancient shrines and statues dotting the side ...
Nippy in Nepal
This is a top pick! ... to go with one of the taxis - if they could be called a taxi - more like a box on wheels. Driving through Kathmandu was an experience, winding round narrow little streets trying to avoid everything else that was winding round the narrow little streets. ...
Quirky Kathmandu.
This is a top pick! ... sights are bustling and full of Nepalis going about their business, rather than being overloaded with tourists. Kathmandu is amazing, intoxicating and exhausting! We arrived at the airport after a 5 hour flight from ...
Entering beautiful Nepal
This is a top pick! ... in the evening and our first sighting was a city of lights as we entered civillisation at long last!!! Left Kathmandu for Pokhora. A beautiful journey throughout the mountains passing by little villages en route. We spent the first evening eating by ...
No work for the weary.
This is a top pick! ... more than $10 a night. So I'm slowly getting accustomed to sleeping in 40° rooms. (Just above freezing in Kathmandu!) Since coming to Nepal was never part of the original plan, I'm grossly unprepared for the cold. Considering I come from Detroit, ...
Back to good ol' Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... particular stupa is located on a special point that is considered holy because it rose out of the ancient lake that once filled the Kathmandu Valley. You can theoretically get a great view of Kathmandu from the top of the stupa, but for us it was ...
Our quest for the Chinese visa
This is a top pick! Thamel, the backpackers district in Kathmandu, caters to your every convenience. Laundry service, bars, fancy restaurants, live music, trekking gear, supermarkets, souvenirs, postcards, bookstores, and every conceivable type of drug is here for the ...
XXX - Not Safe for Work! Ancient Erotica!
This is a top pick! ... place with the conservative attitudes that hold sway now. Much of the same culture almost was present in Nepal, and within the Kathmandu Valley, there are many examples of these brazen, unabashedly sexual attitudes. Adorning the struts of many temples ...
Temples and toilets
This is a top pick! We have managed to spend a little over a week in Kathmandu; was it the cleaner air? the picturesque mountains surrounding the valley? the chocolate cakes and capuccinos? the live music and traditional dance performances every night? the continental ...
permits and high hopes
This is a top pick! ... been a sordid game of me jumping through hoops between indulgent meals of steamed Tibetan bread and heaping plates of momos. The Nepal government coupled with the Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal has created a new system to hoover dollars out of ...
Back in Katmandu from Jungle Safari in Chitwan
This is a top pick! ... .nyctravels.com or http://www.nyccargonepal.com on a borrowed computer because most of the power is off on the streetright now. Kathmandu is very crowded and the energy system is taxed! The population has skyrocketed in the last few years. Off to ...
The Pain of Nepal
This is a top pick! ... before, but I was just not geared up for the change this time. Leaving the border it's a four hour drive to Kathmandu through a beautiful, deep, mountain canyon, across the foothills, into Kathmandu itself. The small towns on each side of the border ...
Stupa's And Temples.
This is a top pick! ... their prayers? Maybe it is just something they do fast? Anyway it fascinated us. Our last place we visited in Kathmandu was Pashupatinath a very powerful Hindu religious centre on the banks of the extremely polluted but sacred Bagmati River. This is ...
Kathmandu, I love you
This is a top pick! ... ! Having all of my formalities out of the way for my Tibet journey, I decided to see more of Kathmandu. Boudha, the largest stupa in Nepal and one of the largest in the world was the target for the afternoon's sightseeing. Unfortunately, the light ...