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La montagne, ça vous gagne
... chaud. Au nord-ouest, les plus hautes montagnes de la planète "s'éclairent" une par une, comme si un petit bonhomme allait rapidement de l'une à l'autre. Leurs neiges éternelles reflètent les chaudes couleurs de l'aube. Si l'Everest est loin, on voit distinctement le massif du Kanchendzonga qui, à 8586m, est la troisième plus haute montagne du monde (la deuxième étant le K2).
De retour en ville, frigorifiés, nous nous installons sur un banc public exposé au soleil ...
Mountains and Momo's
... us, but we had to pay another 100 rupees cos there was 1 unoccupied seat.... the local lady was quite irate cos she agreed to pay 300 rupees for the journey!
The journey up was quite bumpy - darjeeling roads make irish roads look like shining pillars of excellence - but the views were amazing as we began our ascent. There is pretty much only one road up to darjeeling, and one road down, and due to the rains there had been a number of landslides in the days ...
Time for tea and epic journeys
... of gazing out over tea plantations into the Himalayas, all you could see from the ridge top was a cloudy abyss. I took the "toy train" (a narrow gauge steam train) to nearby Ghoom, which was fun, but Ghoom was even more gloomy and cloud covered, with poor visibility even ten metres away, lending it quite a surreal air. I really wanted to take a 4am jeep to nearby Tiger Hill to see sunrise over the Himalayas, but was worried whether I would be able to see anything if it was ...
We start travelling on "Snowy" the overland truck
... with a table between them. There are windows everywhere for good viewing, and it is easy to move around to get access to either side of the bus. Slow trip through Kathmandu to the pass . Get good photos looking down the valley. Rice paddies, big mountains. Highway follows the Trisuli River which gets bigger, with more rapids, and signs of serious white water rafting, and long swing bridges across the river. Lunch at Himalayan Encounters Trisuli Centre white ...
The air that I breathe
... was the Maharajah of Anandashok. He went away looking confused.
Now Tv in India is not the best – it’s either channels full of local news, as you would expect, or cricket, or Bollywood, WWF or bloody baseball.. No sign of football or Rugby World Cup ever. Imagine my disgust then when, 30 mins before my car was coming to take me to the airport, I find a channel showing a replay of Cardiff (my team) v Leicester, the whole match. It ...
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