Hotel Shanker Kathmandu

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Lazimpat Kathmandu, Nepal, 977-1-4410151

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Welcome to Kathmandu..

Well here i am Kathmandu ... finally! After 3 stops - Melbourne - Phuket, Phuket - Bangkok & Bangkok - Kathmandu i arrived for my trekking adventure.... My flight was great as I has 3 seats to myself - the advantages of being short kicked in and I could stretch out with no worries...! However negotiating Bangkok airport was another matter, with 25 million people coming and going throughout the year its big and busy... While i was waiting for my flight a few fighter planes put on a bit of ...

Kathmandu, Nepal chooklotto
Experiencing Holi

The Hotel we are staying at, The Hotel Shanker, is a hangout for pigeons - no need for alarm clocks here as they give you a wake up call about 5am! I had brekky in the hotel then Kerryn, Helen, Doug, Peter & myself set out on the walk to see the Monkey Temple (which is a buddhist temple) in Swayambhunath. We walked through a lot of back streets to get there and saw what kind of conditions some Nepalese live in -- definite eye-opener. Pigs were bathing in the river used for drinking & ...

Kathmandu, Nepal chooklotto
Kathmandu, Nepal

Well, I had a long journal typed and then lost it! This may be short. I had a reaction of tingling hands from the diamox! So today we took 1/2 a pill in the a.m. and p.m. Saturday morning we had the buffet breakfast at the hotel, it was quite good and we found enough to fill us up. It is quite an ornate room we ate in. There are lots of guests at the hotel so the room was quite full. After breakfast we got a taxi to go get our Sita Air tickets at the Medical College. We thought this strange, ...

Kathmandu, Nepal dancejill
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Water Rafting, Mt. Everest & a little rest!

... 365 steps up to it. We got there and spent most of the time watching the monkeys!

The rest of the time we spent just walking about the shops, eating or relaxing. There isn't much to do in Thamel and its full of tourists. And you can't turn a corner without "small smoke sir, hash, cocaine.....". The place is full of drugs. Anyway enough *****ing, we still had a great time here. Heading to the airport for 24hour journey to Beijing, should be fun.

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Kathmandu, Nepal broc_and_bailey
Villages, Plans and more Plans

... me schools, orphanages, and many friend's houses where we stop for endless tea and food picked right from the trees beside us, as we sit on shaded porches. To get to these places, we always walk through cornfields, passing goats tied to wooden posts and children playing with younger siblings. They stop to watch us as we pass, while their parents work away in the fields in the heat.

Today we tried to type up the project budget and ...

Charikot, Nepal joannabee
Picture This...

... happiness, I love Nepal, though soon I will take off out of the city to the peaceful nature of the rest of this beautiful country. By then I will need the peace.

Until then, I listen to the sounds of happy children playing, the calming music of an unseen flute player somewhere out there, outside my window, birds chirping at dawn, the laughter of women in intimate conversations, a man talking to his wife with love and admiration in his eyes, their child watching and ...

Kathmandu, Nepal joannabee
First week

... usually a pancake or crepe-like substance, served with a bit of fruit - this morning it was a banana- or I spread a bit of Nutella over it. Funnily enough they have a wide selection of western foods and products here - anything from Nature Valley bars to Frosted Flakes. At dinner, we always have rice and typically curried potatoes or some type of vegetable. Last night we had a feast - farewell dinner for one of the volunteers in the ...

Kathmandu, Nepal darredondo
Namaste from Nepal

... all the sites. Many of the buildings dated back to the 12th century and are still used today as places of worship for Hindus and Buddhists alike. We visited a building built in 1757 which is the home of today's Living Goddess, Kumari. This is a young girl who after passing several tests as a baby was named the living Goddess of Nepal. She is forbidden to touch the ground outside her home so when she leaves she has to be carried. Once she reaches ...

Kathmandu, Nepal katenclint
What to do...Crazy Kathmandu...Nepal

... how this dampens down ones enthusiasm for retail therapy!! every place you walk past has music blaring out, much of it 60's music from the days when it was purely a a popular stop on the hippy trail and the remnants of this can be seen everywhere with funky shops and names like Freak street !!............ mind you there are still plenty of freaks around!! we had a great meal in the evening in a lovely garden restaurant where we sat and watched Nepali dancing with a ...

Kathmandu, Nepal gillip
Neuro skeleton injury

... the consumer and embarking on a course of unsustainability. The Hotel Milan were freely offering people boiled and filtered stream water, about as safe as you can get, but I heard a group of English people (whom I'm sure Australians would have referred to as 'whining poms') eschewing this water in favour of Coca Cola and then complaining that bottled 'mineral' water was not on sale.

The afternoon was spent pleasantly on the lawn overlooking a valley of cultivated terraces and ...

Kathmandu, Nepal jasonhep
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