Hotel Impala P. Ltd. Kathmandu

... shrines, rick-shaws and more importantly, friendly and welcoming people you will ever see or meet. It's an extremely infectious place and quite the opposite to Pokhara which we leave for on Friday.<br>Will add more to this blog in the next few days, internet time running low!<br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><br>

... dans ma guest house , c'est normal deux heures par jour sans courant. Dans les rues tres animees des jeunes gamins se shootent a la colle, mendient.... Dommage de voir ca. Pas de bus pour demain, donc reserve pour samedi 7h du mat, pour 18$, et 8 heures de bus avec lunch inclus.<br> Ce soir je pense manger un truc plus europeen, c'est blinde de touristes ici, jeunes comme vieux. Demain repos et glandouille et surtout grasse matinee....<br> Peace

... t know her music. <br>Or maybe they do &#8211; you can get a pirated copy of ANYTHING here for<br>$6 &#8211; including new releases. <br><br><br>Thamel<br>(the area where we are staying) reminds us of the town in Star Wars<br>where Luke meets Han Solo in that crazy bar. It has a reckless on<br>the edge feel. Saying Thamel is crowded is an understatement. There<br>are so many hawkers that it's hard to know where to go &#8211; we are<br>looking for a trekking ...

... ticket and signed up for the jump. you only live once and this is supposed to be nutty. we both had to be up at around 5:30 am on the 24th and travel by bus matt to pokhara to do who knows and me to a small village by the river gorge.<br><br>Oct 24 <br>15 people on a short bus at 6 am sucks.there are no roads its like one of those old wooden roller coasters for 3 plus hours everyone was sick and anyone hungover u could tell. While driving through the jungles of ...

... was "dzt, dzzzzt, dzzzzt, dzt, dzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt. Man did I ever wish my friend Matt, who would spend an hour killing every last mosquito in a place before we'd go to sleep, was here on this night!<br><br>My choices were getting bitten on every square inch of my entire body or sleeping under a furry blanket in 28 degree heat, and opening the screen less window was NOT an option. These choices left me with little sleep so I feel fantastic today.<br ...

... and can't just hose them down as they enter. ;) KP laments how a country with one of the largest water supplies in the world can run out on a regular basis. <br><br>Speaking of outages, the power went out again. It also went out in the school the other day when I was teaching the grade 4 class. The things we get used to in the modern world... <br><br>By the way, for those who want to see tons of my pictures of Nepal, go to my flickr page:<br> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jojobee/

... His holy men in orange chums told us he was 110 years old and we later recognized him as the same guy photographed on a retro postcard we had bought earlier so maybe he was famous in the seventies, who knows. We walked up amongst the jungle of temples, sculptures, lingams., monkeys and shrines to the Gorakhnath Temple which has a giant trident then back to watch another ceremony in action. <br><br>We crossed the river and headed to the caves that were still being used by ...

... in a few lines of 'Welcome to Nepal'-- for my benefit I'm sure), the maid brought out a plate with uncooked rice and some money for the bards. <br><br>I ended up leaving for Kathmandu on Sunday (rather than Tuesday as originally planned). Limbu didn't seem too keen on the Nepali lessons, and he was often too hungover during the day anyway. The TMI was getting a bit much, and I was getting a little bored. But mostly, it was just time to go.

... been planning to go on what is know as a trek (actually I had been planning that, Michelle had merely consented after many hours of 'discussion'). Trekking is the lifeblood of the economy here. People from all over the place come here to walk on one or more of the famous trekking routes around the hills of the great Himalaya and some of them even go on to climb a peak. 'Trekking', whilst sounding like a hardy and adventurous undertaking involving ice picks, dried ...