New Crystal Hotel Nepal Pokhara

... des oiseaux, c'est son metier. On attendait que Scott, un autre instructeur, ramene un harnais pour que je puisse prendre une photo avec un vautour dans ma main.<br>Retour a la chambre, au passage ai parle avec la fille de l'agence de mon premier saut, lui ai aussi demande si elle sortait ce soir, elle savait pas. J'ai pas insiste je sais meme pas si elle est maquee ou pas. Mais bon on s'entend bien et elle est vraiment mignonne....<br>Petit reconfort bien merite a ...

... vue plein de gens refusent... Donc on afait des virages de la mort, a l'horizontale, des deux cotes, puis des piques, la feuille morte, ... Un pied total!!!! Aussi bien que ma premiere fois en Argentine. Aterrissage en beaute, contrairement a ma premiere fois, ou avec l'instructeur argentin on avait failli se prendre des barbeles en pleine face et qu'il avait fallu se coucher. Avons atterri au bord du lac, puis avons laisse les gamins plier le parachute, ils savent tous le faire et ...

... around at the pass<br><br>From the pass, we dropped over 6000 feet into the Mustang area of the Annapurna region. We stayed at the famous Bob Marley hostel, had hot showers and drank our first beer since starting the trek! Over the next two days, we dropped elevation, passed through ever more ...

... and was meant to be a 6-7 hour journey, 11 hours later we got to Kathmandu! However the bus was over crowded as another bus had broken down so there was a group of Canadians who had to sit on the floor. One of them decided to fly back to Kathmandu. The bus blokes went and bought stools for the girls to sit on, however, about 2 hours later we dropped off a group who were off rafting and the girls got seats for the rest of the journey. <br><br>The Maoists approx 250 of 601 ...

... it can be described as) got louder. To finish the evening Michael Jackson came on, nothing like a bit of thriller with a cobra dance to end the evening! And then it was to bed as we had to be up at 4.30am for the sunrise over the Himalaya. <br><br>Day 3<br><br>2nd November 2009<br><br>Ghorepani/Deurali (2860) to Tadapani (2630) <br><br>The day started early with a quick get up at 4.30am to throw on some clothes on for a walk up Poon Hill. However, one of us didn ...

... start point. It was a narrow river canyon with loads of waterfalls all leading in to deep rock pools descending over 900m. We did the canyoning with two Nepali guides who were excellent and an American guy and Canadian guy who were both a good laugh. <br><br>We started with an abseil down a waterfall about 20m in height, Em only got about half way before the power of the water knocked her legs from beneath her and had to get ...

... back to Pokhara on a jeep which was rammed full of 15 of us for 2 hours then a taxi for 3 hours but really glad to be back in Pokhara for a well deserved rest.<br><br><br>We really enjoyed the trek, it was definitely the most challenging thing we have ever done, especially the day of the pass. We are so proud of ourselves to have done it and we had an amazing time. We met some great people along the way too but it defiantly wasn't easy! <br><br><br>

... but as the boys from Peckham had turned up (the<br>trotters) we popped a few imodium and set off to the train station<br>where we bordered an overnight sleeper train for 7 hours, and got to<br>Gorakhpur which is about 3 hours from the Nepalese border where we<br>jumped on a local bus and got to Nepal about midday yesterday. There<br>was not much difference between the two countries at this point, and<br>then as its the Nepalese main festival we found out we were stuck at<br>the border as ...

... to play Spades? Jonathan and I kept losing so bad against them. That was just unbelievable. We spent hours trying to catch up with our score until we figured out that Pemba was cheating. That little monkey knows how to deal cards a certain way so he gets exactly the cards he wants. He's so good at it, it's crazy!!! We had suspicions but we couldn't figure out how he was doing it. I gave him a hard time for being a lama and being a cheater. That just made him laugh!

... for the slightly more temperate Chure Hills. Flowers, although not in abundance at this time of year, were quite a common sight and most households seemed to have small gardens, some of which were very ornamental and pretty.<br><br>After our travels in northern India, Nepal seemed to us much cleaner and brighter. The people in villages seemed much more healthy looking and everywhere there seemed to be columns of immaculate-looking schoolchildren wearing identical school uniforms ...