Hotel Moonlight Kathmandu

... mas bajamos a la ciudad a comernos unas pizzas a unos restaurantes italianos bastante buenos!

Justo hoy acaba de terminar el Drupchen, que es una ceremonia continua que dura 9 días sin parar! Tuvimos la suerte de tenerlo a Tsoknyi Rinpoche (un lama fabuloso a cargo del monasterio) dirigiéndola todos los días, que privilegiados!! Hubieron cosas muy interesantes, tormas (ofrendas hechas con tsampa), cantos, danzas tibetanas, purificaciones, y momentos muy fuertes. Tenemos un ...

... however the it's currently being renovated so sadly the eyes were covered up :(

Considering how touristy it is up there it's very peaceful and as long as you wander clockwise you could while away the day looking at the souvenir shops and photographing the monkeys. It's a shame I can't upload the pictures.... :(

I was suffering from dehydration and exhaustion so we gave the afternon trip to Bhaktapur a ...

... of this devastation. 22,000 residents were expelled from its 360 square miles, and a special contingent of the Royal Nepalese Army was deployed to prevent rhino poaching. Since Royal Bardia National Park, 374 square miles, is mostly hill country, and was not as useful for farmland, its creation in 1976 was not as violently traumatic. Both parks now preserve the magnificent flora and fauna of the subtropical woodlands of the ...

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... or laughing too hard, but most likely all 3. Harvey, this amazingly funny British gay guy, got up on stage and started singing a Savage Garden song A Capella while the Nepali (and ourselves) waved our hands in the air from left to right. This was then followed by an all out Nepali dance party, where men dance with men and wave their arms in the air ever so gracefully. I had one older man that fancied me and kept ...

Namaste
Hier soir ai mange un butter chicken avec du riz et un jus d'orange, ai trop assure avec mes sous. Ce matin lever a 3h30 pour attraper un tuk tuk a 4h et aller a l'aeroport pour 100 roupies, de toute facon je n'en avais pas un de plus, trop bien negocie. Le hic c'est qu'il ne parlait pas anglais et qu'il m'a depose a l'aeroport international et que donc il a fallu que je marche avec mes 25 kg sur le dos si tot le matin. Bien sur l ...

... am writing to you from my hotel's court garden in Kathmandu, drinking an Everest (beer) and grinning ear to ear (not only because of the beer! Lol!). I am loving it! My hotel is like a peaceful little sanctuary inside the heart of Kathmandu's chaotic loud and often assaulting attack on the senses! Both experiences are splendid and balance each other well!!!

I've heard it be said that arriving at the Kathmandu airport for the first time is a pupil dilating experience. They weren ...

... I then had to find my way back to Thamel which proved to be the biggest challenge and i had to back by a certain time to return the bike. I must have asked 10 different peeps for directions at different points saying 'thamel' but they didn't understand my accent so it took a while and more patience...and it was rushhour. A cop proved to be most helpful. And just as i was ready to get really frustrated and upset, after an 1 1/2 hr of being lost, i ...

... We were looking at a 10 hour round trip over icy, muddy, glacial talus. Attempted in freezing rain, this promised to be grueling.
Finally, around 6:00pm the evening before we were to leave, the rain stopped and the wind died. Like a horror movie where the monster only becomes visible in the final act, K2 slowly emerged from the clouds. Even from miles away it was awesome to behold. We were finally able to get ...

... me at half past four but my body refused to be extracted from the snug confines of my sleeping bag in order to troop up a steep Himalayan foothill for three quarters of an hour in darkness and cold. I closed my eyes and went back to sleep.

As I slept, my brain registered all sorts of crashing and cursing going on around me in the other rooms, which were separated by plywood walls. I heard the three masochistic English lads (who were stomping around a week-long trek in three days as ...