Pilgrims Hotel Kathmandu

... finally settle down with finest whispers.

Irene, Ms Choo and I arrived late in Kathmandu, Nepal at 8.00pm. All we could see was, luggage strewn all over the receiving area, and there were no conveyor belts and trolleys in the airport. We had to climb over other luggage, sorting and searching for our luggage. Kind of messy, but what can we say, this is one of the poorest country in the world. With a population of 28 million, equivalent to Malaysia’s population ...

... de taxi ou ca se trouve. La il me dit que gros probleme c'est pas la du tout et que ce sera 200 roupies. Lui dis ben non mon gars tu m'enfleras pas, c'est pas de ma faute si tu t'es perdu, je t'ai bien montre l'adresse. Il est vert mais accepte.
Arrive a l'ambassade, remplis une application, vais au guichet et donne mon passeport, ma photo et le papier bien rempli. Malheureusement il me faut aussi une photocopie de mon passeport, et ...

... Introduction

In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. An insurgency led by Maoist extremists broke out in 1996. The ensuing ten-year civil war between insurgents and government forces witnessed the dissolution of the cabinet and ...

... plenty you never thought of too. Restaurants, bars, trekking shops, hippy shops, Tibetan shops and music shops! It's a riot of smells too - yummy food, incense, rotting rubbish, smoke and pollution all mixed up as one. At night the bars pump out the music and the taxi horns honk away too. Good fun!

Soon we were packing up and preparing for the trek whilst trying to fight off the colds we were carrying from Bangladesh.

... down stairs and now i got to do this.
they weigh you and set u up in groups i was in group two and you wait in the bar and all you hear are screams from people falling and jumping off the bridge i wanted to slug like 30 beers right there. You just try not to think about it though. I meet two english guys a local and a lady from france who all were just as freaked as me and we just talked for a while keepin our mind off the jump. O ya andthey have spiders there ...

... quite convincing so I went along with it. To be perfectly honest I would never have seen half the sights if I had ignored him so he was worth the fee I eventually paid him, which was less than £6 for more than 2 hours. However, I drew the line when he told me he was a qualified massage therapist and would be happy to ease my aches and pains from trekking!!

I bade him farewell and retreated to my room. Eventually I decided I should venture ...

... regular price. I stayed at the Student Guest House the first night as I got in after dark and had to find something. It was good but it has no windows so I left the next day. I really like light.

Now I'm at the not so cheap but very bright and comfortable Tibetan Guest House until Monday morning when I go off to Chitwan. I don't like paying $9 a night for a hotel room but really, that is not that expensive. I'm just used to prices outside of Thamel.

But ...

... I felt ready for the morgue. Nothing I had done on any previous trek had been so difficult as that. I reflected darkly as I lay on the hard bed in our lodge that I had been five years younger on the last trek, although it only seemed like yesterday. If my mood was foul, it was nothing when placed alongside Michelle's. This had confirmed her worst fear; namely that I had dragged her on an endurance test of stamina and strength, only for her to be laughed at by amused ...