Chhetri Sisters Guest House Pokhara

here is my Facts About Nepal report! Most Shocking T-Shirt I saw: Besides Britney, Avril and lots of pro weed t-shirts (marijuana plants were abundant in the Annapurna trek)...I saw several Chris Benoit t-shirts (he is the WWF wrestler who killed wife and kids last year. Saw many WWF t-shirts. That's where the Song Came From! The first time i heard Nepali music, it made me think of the Celine Dion song from Titanic...so I wasn't too surprised to see many porters wearing Titancic bandanas and ...

hi Friends and Family i am back in sunny Pokhara after a 12 day trek to Annapurna Base Camp. This was a very different experience than the Everest Trek. The two main differences were that we weren't camping, we stayed in tea houses (think a room with two beds and a nightstand) and the altitude wasn't an issue as the highest we trekked to was 4130 meters (13,620 feet) which when I type it out seems high but after being at 18,000 feet, there is a vast difference in terms of oxygen and temperatu...

another entry for my tracking purposes! Dec: 10th kathmandu- Bangkok Dec 9: thamel- errands, shipping, momo's Dec 8: 9 hour bus ride chitwan to kathmandu- met Hannah Dec 5-7: Greenline bus pokhara to Chitwan, 2 days in chitwan: elephant ride in jungle, baby rhino, canoe ride in am in the mist, jungle walk with Bikram Nov 30-Dec 5: At Chhetri Sisters guest house, reading touching my father's soul, blogging, paragliding, eating spinach/mushroom enchiladas, talking with Cotrina and Tiger, "teach...

# of bottles of purell used: 2 (last trek we had soap and water!) # of dal bhaat consumed: no more than 10!! astonishing low cheapest Momo's: 20 rupees for 10 in a fabulous hole in the wall in thamel (tourist area of Kathmandu) # of times I used a phone the last 7 weeks: 4 (3 for ma and pa check-ins- 1 of those from a mountain village for thanksgiving 2 minute check in, 2 minutes from Namche Bazaar in Everest Region using Wade's cell phone, 1 from phone booth in Pokhara) 1 to get a reservatio...

Nepal is not only a place of natural beauty but home to the kindest people I've ever met. There is an inner joy and peace amongst these people I've never witnessed before. We would be at a lodge on the Annapurna Trek and the folks working at the lodge there is an ease, a lack of cynicism, a A Nepali man I met (while riding on the top of an old jeep) asked me if I was happy (I had a huge grin on my face!)he said he is always happy-"What is there to be sad about? I start feeling sadness coming ...