Hotel Padma Kathmandu

... a la banane, et du raksi, un vin ou plutot une sorte de shnaps, que j'ai bu avec du pepsi, pas mauvais et surtout a 80 centimes les 6ml, on va pas cracher dessus. Regardons des ceremonies de pleine lune sur la place.
Puis retour a l'hotel, bedos et lecture avant de m'endormir vers 0h15.
Lever ce matin a 6h30, petit dejeuner a 7h, puis taxi jusqu'a Kathmandu a 7h45. Arrivons a mon hotel a 8h30, pas trop de circulation et surtout ...

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Jet lag took over and we slept through until about 1pm (7.30am ish back home). This pm we ventured out in search of lunch in Thamel (backpacker area of city). It is much nicer than I expected and compared to India, just over the border, somewhere I could easily get used to. There are lots of shops selling crafty things and clothes and you don't get hassled much - or at least I didn't. The Lonely ...

... 27 leopards, and 15 sloth bears. More adult tigers were killed on this hunt than are currently are alive at Chitwan, now a precious 50 breeding pairs. And the current Asian rhino population of Chitwan is about 400, which is a quarter of the worlds' total. A photo taken after a 1935 hunt shows a well-heeled man posing in front of a wide, 3-tiered rack displaying dozens of tiger and leopard pelts.

Whatever you might think ...

... 1504;ות כפרס. ואולי זה כך? נווכח עוד עשרים ימים בעצמי.
שבוש יש לי להעבי 12; עד יום שישי, שבוע ש ...

... and I were just thinking "What the hell did we get ourselves into". We eat dal baht (rice and lentils) for dinner and breakfast and drink boiled water. Our second day, when the kids were at school, we went directly back to the guest house to be with our friends again. We all decided to meet up this weekend and do a 3 day safari in Chitwan National Park. This greatly elevated my spirits. When we got back to the orphanage ...

... que le bus allait doucement a 15km/h, il fallait que ca tombe juste ce jour la. Et pourtant meme a l'aeroport ils conduisent comme des cons a ne pas respecter leur file, ou a stationner n'importe ou. Arrive au guichet du check in pour mon vol, bien sur c'etait trop tard, ils venaient de fermer 10 mn avant. Je demande si on peut pas me prendre quand mem on me dit que non qu'il fallait que j'arrive a l'heure. Je me mets a gueuler comme quoi on a ...

... just slightly off! Regardless – it all comes with the territory I suppose! I have a week on my own before Chris arrives (Yay! Hi Chris!) and more adventures await!



But the Everest beer is now dwindling, and although the burning incenses have done much to mask my need to shower, it will be best for us all that I tackle that task. I am just praying for hot water! PLEASE!!! lol! Take care my friends!! Please feel free to write! Namaste!

... so this may be the last update for awhile. When we are back, we promise more pictures. If we do not have access...write again in about a month!!!

P.S. James C. ...today we learned about some rock nearby that we may have a chance to get on!
P.P.S John if the Steelers won every game, it would demoralize the rest of the league too much. Haha

Take care all
Deb and Bry

... freefall followed sometime later by a bungee. All this was to happen on the following day.

Our accommodation was a damp tent, with a great bed, a tent frog and geckos and a Metal roof to keep the worst of the monsoon rain off. It was weird, damp but comfortable.

After dinner and a lot of celebratory beers we collapsed to await the morning and the arrival of a huge bunch of pre-twenty something's to carry out their own form of personal test ...

... breath sounding alarmingly short in the dawn silence. Nobody was around as I climbed and on one occasion I took the wrong path and had to turn back. My cardiovascular system was getting a workout it could have done without before having breakfast. After half an hour of plodding I heard the distant voices of other people. I sweated some more and lumbered nearer to the top and soon the people became visible and began to pass me on the trail as they descended. I received a few smart comments ...