Hotel Tibet Kathmandu

Kathmandu, only one thing I can say chaos !!! It is like what you would expect to see in a turn of the last century film with an English Gentleman in India. Small narrow dirt streets with rickshaws and masses of people...... We got to Nepal to meet with the rest of our expedition team and to get our equipment. We even had equipment hand made of us and it was so cheap..... Our logistics manager, managed Ric************s round the world attempts and we where staying in the "Tibet Hotel" where v...

Just arrived in Kathmandu - what an amazing place. Flew in from London via Bahrain. It is Ramadan - so at Bahrain airport the coffee shops and snack bars were virtually deserted. I had been told that if you are travelling it is OK to eat and drink during the daytime in Ramadan - but apart from a few western passengers everyone else in the airport seemed to be abstaining. Great flight from Bahrain to Kathmandu - I managed to get a window seat on the left hand side of the plane - so some fantas...

Walk towards central Kathmandu down one of the main streets, Kantipath. The road is busy - but the traffic fumes are not as bad as I had been led to believe. Every few yards a taxi or cycle rickshaw pulls up and asks if I want a lift - but I prefer to walk. Passing the Royal Palace there are lots of huge, noisy fruit bats in the tree tops. I turn off the main street down one of the many narrow side streets. The smells are incredible - spices, fruits and leather mixed with a bit of two-stroke ...

We start the day by visiting Swayambunath - the temple up on the hill above Kathmandu. The first thing you notice as you arrive is that the whole hillside appears to be covered in prayer flags. Swayambutnath is also known as the 'Monkey Temple' - and we had been warned to keep a tight hold of sunglasses, cameras, etc, just in case one of the monkeys decided to pinch them. We did see a few monkeys - but they seemed quite shy. None of them came close enough to pinch anything. (Perhaps they just...

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On one of my first few days in Kathmandu, I studied yoga with Akhil Bhattacharya and met a wonderful couple from Spain, Jesus and Leticia. We had a wonderful vegetarian lunch each day prepared by Sahtti, Akhil's wife. I spent a few days in Boudhanath, walking the kora and sitting in on the Westerner talk on Saturday with Chogyi Nyima Rinpoche in the Sheto (white) Gompa. 

Kathmandu has not really changed much. The noise, pollution, people, animals, power outages, sights, smells and soun...