Hotel Gurkha Haven Pokhara

... see this as a way to help the tibetan people and bring wealth and access to impoverished areas in tibet. In reality they just see it as expansion into their territory, they don't use the train and don't really want it there. Still i'm sure its a real achievement even if i'm not technical enough to tell you all why. Considering it was such a long journey, time flew by watching the changing scenery and we were soon in lhasa.<br><br>Lhasa is the biggest city in tibet, and ...

... leur propre voile et materiel. Arrives la bas, un couple de russes y etait deja et buvait de la biere. Et j'ai ete revolte en voyant qu'ils ont saute et laisse leur bouteille vide dans la nature. Bien les amis de la nature! Puis mon instructeur me dit que je ne sauterai pas car le vol serait trop court, comme 10-15 mn, et que ca valait pas le coup, en plus c'etait couvert donc visibilite reduite pour voir les paysages... Un peu degoute ...

... don&#8217;t do it justice! <br><br>Perhaps what makes the trip so unique is the number of villages that one passes through on this trek. Every few hours, you pass through a new village and each one of these villages has its own character, but all of them, at least on the east side of the pass ...

... traveled a couple of days. In the evening I met a German/Swiss guy named Moritz and spent the rest of the trek with him. On the evening that we met we started playing Toepen (thanks Marcel for teaching it me in India!) together with Dirk, Arnoud, Moritz, Yaneev (an Israelian guy) and me. I lost of course, but it was lots of fun! Next day we (Dirk, Arnoud, Moritz and me) went up to the Tilicho lake, which is at 4900m. It is not on the main trek, so it is ...

... since I've got a few good people to continue on with.<br><br>I can't describe how breathtaking this scenery is. And the culture along the trail is so special. I now understand why people keep coming back here for more. In fact, I'm already plotting my next trip. Hope everyone is well and enjoying the autumn...it even feels like it here...leaves changing, squash, and the crisp smell of fires...more soon, love to everyone, Amanda<br>

... trip which was fantastic and has convinced me that my next experience on the water will be a 4 day kayak clinic!<br><br>There were so many highs on this trip and no lows. I suppose not sleeping too well on the second night as I think I had a rock trapped somewhere underneath me could be the only slight complaint, but in the overall experience that is so minor it is hardly worth a mention. I did have a bit of a &#8220;moment&#8221; on the first afternoon as we ...

... like the jumping around, warm-up thing as it turns out. It's this lovely town on a lake where people try and get you to hire them to take you out on little blue and green rowboats. I'm staying in this sweet room up in the very tippy top of a house. They call it the temple room, but as it turns out the whole extended family from Germany is in town, with all these kids, and are thus occupying all the other rooms...kind of feels like I'm at work with all the ...

... br>We then continued, laughed, talked as we marched through fields of rice, millet, soy beans, and other crops unkown to me...we walked through some villlages, up and around hills, through forest...all the while having a stunning view of the towns below from where we started, and the mountains somewhat as it was cloudy. Then once we couldn't go any higher on this paritcular hill, we had reached the sunset village of Astam, at 1550 m ...

... up to the stupa. I discovered that this was actually the famous "Peace Stupa " I had read about in the book. Having looked around for a while we retreated to a cute little café for a well earned drink. As we sat there I could see another shrine on a hill that did not look too far away across the ridge. Sushil (that was his name I discovered) said he was happy to take me over there as the views would be amazing. When we got there I was informed that I had climbed 1 ...

As usual Deana uses her charming tactics to get us to put some extra miles in our feet. There is an Intalian Research Center off the trail on our way to Gorak Shep. She has never been there and has always wanted to take a look at the place. Because we love her so much we all said yes and 30 minutes after we had left Lobuche we went off the trail. <br>The Italian Research Station is the highest one in the world (5050 meters = 16570 feet) and that's it... I am above 5000 meters for the ...