Kathmandu Hostels - Reviews and Rates

(Disclaimer - Sorry there are not many photos yet. I'm having a hard time uploading them! I will post more later!)

Namaste!!
Wow – it has been awhile since the last blog post eh? Sorry! Now the trouble with such long gaps between posts is that so much has happened between then and now that it is hard to know where to start and w...

Our last few days in India were pretty good. We got up early (5:00am) to catch a boat along the Ganga (complete with floating dead carcus - maybe dog, maybe cow?!?!?) and see the sunrise - it was an interesting journey and an amazing experience. There were plenty of other tourists/travellers doing the same as us, so the river was pretty busy!! I...

We arrived in Kathmandu on the 25th, which was, unbenounced to us,
smack in the middle of Dasain, the largest national festival of Nepal.
It celebrates the goddess Durga's triumph over evil. And Kathmandu has
been amazing.


Flags are hung from all of the buildings and over the streets, kids
have off from school and every a...

Much better sleep after Surya put two more mattresses over the stone bed I was sleeping on earlier. Lol. Today we visited his school again, I got on line and typed up the entire budget and to do list in Excel. We did lots of work on the project and needed a break.

Then we visited yet another friend of Surya's.
He's hilarious. He kno...

Day 2 in kathmandu, This morning we met up with someone that we had been given in australia as a contact. He met us at our hotel and we caught a taxi to another part of town to his travel office and organised a trek with them. Tomorow morning we travel to a place called pokhara, about 6-7 hours drive from here, we plan to stay the night there an...

By some strange miracle I was able to sleep through the roosters this morning, waking up at 8:30 instead of the usual 5:30-6. Amazing. Not as amazing was the continuation of the seemingly endless bandhas (strikes), this time with a new twist: in lue of skyrocketing food & textbook prices, the student population is on strike as well. Their de...

Nearly there now lovely bloggers.......... I had a day in Kathmandu where I did some last minute shopping and bumped into Mick (and Dina) of Indonesia aquaintance by sheer chance. I real long shot and appreciated meet up prompting a meal and couple of beers. I stayed at the Planet Hotel in Thamel which is a right tickle (thanks Ben) at 300 rupee...

I spend half a day chatting over coffee to Pam, a retiree who has just returned from a Sherpa village where she's been living with a headmaster and setting up a small library for the school. (This makes me feel even more like a tourist in comparison.) There seems no tradition of reading for pleasure in Nepal. Students are bemused by non-text boo...

Today was the festival of Indra Jatra, one of the major festivals in the Kathmandu valley. The legend goes that the rain god Indra was causing havoc, and flooding the valley, so the young men set out to put a stop to it. They captured Indra and ordered him to stop the rain before they would release him. Indra complied, and every year they commem...

Left Kathmandu again for what should've been a 4 hour journey. But a number of accidents turned it into 8 hours. One of the accidents involved a lorry ploughing through a house, 3 dead. The lorry driver was beaten up. The road blocked by drivers, local population etc. Long hold up, it was very hot. Some people on the bus wanted to head back and ...