Hotel Shanker Kathmandu
Lazimpat Kathmandu, Nepal
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Kathmandu for one last time
We got up this morning at 7:30, just before breakfast was served. How nice to not have to be up early! We enjoyed a nice breakfast and bid farewell to some friends we had made over the past few days. They were all catching buses either to Pohkara or Kathmandu, where we were waiting for our flight at 12:30. We relaxed the rest of the morning on the …
Livin' it up at the Shanker!
4:30am this morning, the phone rang with our wake-up call. We were up an at 'em and ready at 5am for our drive to the airport. Unfortunately our ride was 25 minutes late, but we arrived in plenty of time to make our mountain flight (a flight over the mountains to see Everest and other major mountains from the top!). As the light shone over …



