Pokhara Palace Hotel

La veille je suis alle manger dans un restau, ai pris un chicken butter masala et du riz. a cote il y avait un francais de 37 ans, Philippe, un beto, et un suisse de 26 ans, Samy. Apres avoir fini mon repas ils m'invitent a leur table. Parlons un peu puis allons ensemble au Busy bee, ou je suis maintenant connu et reconnu.... Reste essentiellement avec Samy car le francais est vraiment trop chelou.. On a joue au baby foot facon nepalais, avec treize joueurs et les ...

... je peux pas me plaindre.... Puis retour dans la chmbre pour bouquiner, va falloir que je mange du riz car apres deux repas sans riz, et les pieds dans l'eau froide la matinee puis dans les airs l'apres midi, j'ai le bide en bouillie. Si ca continue je vais ruiner les forets nepalaises en PQ...<br>Ah oui, en rentrant de mon vol suis elle directement reserver pour jeudi apres midi pour sauter en parapente avec le faucon.... Si il fait pas beau ils me rendent ma caution....<br>Peace<br><br>

... so the Nepali Royal Family can make the pilgrimage in style!<br><br><br>Ben ringing in the sunset at the Muktinath temple complex<br><br><br>Prayers are strewn across the hillside behind the temple complex<br><br><br><br>Ben and Greg making friends <br><br><br>On the west side of the pass, the ...

... t make it that far. Within 10 minutes of walking I became dizzy and felt very sick and so turned back and left Neil to see the sunrise on his own (you know how I love early mornings!). Partly exhaustion, dehydration, not enough sleep and altitude played a part in my not being able to do the walk &#8211; I was actually quite gutted. <br><br>After Neil returned from his 300m jaunt we had a quick breakfast and left for the days walk, luckily an easy walk considering ...

... but it was so much fun. We both really enjoyed it and so glad we managed to squeeze it in as it was great experience. <br><br>We arrived back about 8pm so was a really long day, we went for dinner with Micheal the American guy who is living out in Singapore and hes invited us to stay at his place next year which is pretty cool. We had our pre departure meeting for the rafting then straight to bed ready for another 6am start yikes!

... fantastisk, og vi har moedt saa mange spaendende mennesker paa vores tur. Men hyggeligst af alt (udover selve trekket selvfoelgelig) var vores guide Debi Lama alias Mr. Dhal Bhat og vores storsmilende/-bandende/-grinende/-rygen de/-drikkende, hurtigtloebende og haardtarbejdende porter Majla allias Mr. Mustang Coffee. Disse to personer laerte os at bande paa nepalesisk, spille kort hvor indsatsen var danskernes chokolade, spise skoen dhal bhat (nepalesernes hofret bestaeende ...

... from and we walked together for a good 15-20 minutes.<br><br>Kathmandu is chaotic but blame that on traffic. Cars, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians<br>share amazingly narrow streets with no sidewalks. Continuous honking is a survival tool that says <br> &#8216;get out of the way&#8217;. It has nothing to do with lack of patience like drivers at home. They DO NOT drive straight lines, always swerving to avoid a person, a dog, a car or whatever ...

... more which is better for me. We got talking to some guy on the bus who works in the<br>British Gurkha camp in Pokhara and he has offered to show us round the<br>Gurkha base here which should be good so we are off there on Wednesday.<br>Not sure if there are any assault courses on site but I'm sure Dave's<br>Athletico Wigan training will have put him in good shape for that. We<br>have checked into a guest house paying about 4 pound a night for a<br>double ensuite room. the room has a ...

We woke up pretty early as today was our longest day by far. The plan was to climb Kala Patthar and then head to Everest Base Camp across the mountains instead of going back to Gorak Shep and then take the easy trail to Base Camp. <br>The climb to Kala Patthar was not a technical climb at all, but the altitude made it tiring (18450 feet = 5624 meters). We only went up by 442 meters in elevation, but it surely felt like we had climbed 1200 meters. No chatting along the way. I ...

... so-called 'Maoist rebels' who are threatening to take over some rural parts of the country. The population is burgeoning and the strain on natural resources, already unsustainable, continues unabated. What's more, Nepal is now unable to continue to act as trade broker between India and China as they now have reached their own trade agreements and no longer need to employ a go-between. The infrastructure is a shambles with potholed roads, frequent electrical load-shedding, a high ...