Durbar Hotel Kathmandu

... the whole group has tried it out and had a good walk around it and of course a papparazi moment!!!<br>We have (as always) had a good prescription of ground clearance and were all getting pretty good with pick axes, shovels...etc. We are also convinced that the principle has a sharehold in a Nepali cement firm with the amount of steps he wants built!!! We have made a nice flower bed in the school due to having to move the only naturally flowered area in the school and ...

... hours at the transit hotel in the airport last night, then on this morning to Kathmandu. Fantastic views of the Himalayas from the plane.<br><br>Kathmandu has everything I was preparing myself for before our aborted India trip last year - abject poverty, intense culture and religion, total chaos everywhere, cows in the street, a plague of honking (cars, bikes, etc.), intense beauty and grime and history in all directions. Its real overload. I haven't seen much yet, as I spent most ...

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... Nim*. He's * thin little m*n with * j*unty green fedor* *nd is, *s Nigel s*id, *n "*ce" driver. Our bus w*s quite big, so we *ll h*d our own row. We *ctu*lly spent so much time on the bus th*t I believe there's * mould of e*ch of us left in our se*ts. The drive to Gy*ntse w*s very long (I don't even remember how long *nymore - the long drives blend into one, like the temples), but the views were *m*zing. At le*st th*t's wh*t my di*ry s*ys. I suppose we'll see when I get the ...

... of you who<br>want more details or pictures e-mail me, but this is a PG rated blog).<br><br><br>Afterwards, we climbed to the top of one of the old structures in the<br>main square and looked down on the main celebration scene The hustle<br>and bustle and colors reminded me of a Where's Waldo picture... only busier.<br><br><br>Later, exhausted, we walked back to our hotel in the late morning,<br>sharing a ...

... town of Pokhara after seeing some of the most breath-takingly beautiful scenary on earth! The Himalayas don't dissapoint- they are just amazing!<br><br>Jo and I have since been working at Rainbow Children's Home for poor and orphaned children. Today is our last proper day- we finished yesterday and went for an amzing paraglide this morning, catching the thermals like the eagles over Pokhara valley with a Himalaya backdrop!<br><br>Today the second day ...

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Circumnavigating the globe over land and sea is always going to have it's challenges. Oceans, mountain ranges, war zones, dictatorships and other unsympathetic regimes are just some of the stumbling blocks that can threaten such an undertaking. Having had to break the 'no fly' rule once already, with our unavoidable flight to Sri Lanka, I am determined not to be beaten again if I can help it.<br><br>Riding up through India and around Nepal ...

... incredibly frustrating if not impossible. <br><br>Also, you'd think the keyboards were all embedded in peanut butter with how ridiculously annoying they are to type on. The Internet time isn't free either.<br><br>Later still, I was handed nail clippers and told to cut. I have to admit I was a bit freaked out but soon found an old man whose nails were very neglected. He sat looking at me with the kindest eyes. Such sincerity in them that I felt that if I ...

We had found lots of benefits from doing the first round of the Vipassana meditation in Kerala, India which involved ten days of noble silence and 10 hours of meditation a day and so decided we would do it again and go a little deeper. We haven't been practising since our last course because we've been busy on the road and so were hoping to get a refreshment and established a little more in the difficult technique which involves simple breathing and ...