Pokhara View Garden

... trekkers so in the end we told them to sod it and went with Claudi to a place over the road which had amazing food and Chris had a Yak steak which was fantastic.

Day 9 - Manang to Yak Kharka 9km now at 4050m
Fairly late start as met Claudi for breakfast but was a really tough walk today as we climbed 500m. It was getting noticeably colder and saw our first bits of snow too. Sharee the American couples guide had booked us a room in ...

... Kathmandu to arrange for our next adventure, which will be in the Everest/Khumbu region of Nepal. Here are a couple of pictures of sunset from where we had dinner. Hope all is well with all of you. We are doing just fine, it will be nice to put our feet up and relax for a couple of days of no walking!

Bry and Deb

... for him, so he left and tried to lay low for a year or so, working nights and trying not to be recognized by anyone who might know who he was. When he escaped and was running through the jungle, he said he wasn't scared of any animal or danger. Instead he was only afraid of those men and of death.

Here we were going crazy over leeches and climbing in darkness...

Agelessness
We asked Raju how old he was now and he said, questioningly, "Twenty one ...

Ok so I don't think I finished me story on the base camp trek....

Rosie and I decided to get on up to Annapurna or Jomson. We decided last minute to fire our guide the night before the trek though because he was creeping us out... looking in our packs and in our wallets and listening to everything... and when we inquired about trekking advice or the mountains... he had no clue whatsoever.... to top things off he kept giving us conflicting prices and ...

... he had lost in the morning!!!! We finally get to Jihnu around 4:30 which made it too late to take in the Hot Springs. I am pretty tired and wet so I take a cold shower!!! (no hot water!!) and decide to rest and I fall asleep to wake up around 7 p.m. so I go down to get some water and a blanket and just go right back to bed. Again, I have the whole Guesthouse to myself.

... tried before and they gave us fresh Lychees...mmmm...me and one of the girls kinda looked alike and the english speaking girl told me her mum loved me cause i was just like her daughter. So sweet. I wanted to bring them all with me. hehe The local people in Thamel, which is the tourist spot of Kathmandu are always after something off you its so frustrating but out here they just want to know who you are and where your going and they are always trying to help, it's really ...

... was find a guest house and get some flights. Following the advice of one of the policeman who we had met in the checkpoint we entered into a small place next door to the police where the owner, a wonderful Tibetan lady, almost gave Jen the hug of a lifetime before showing us a room and immediately getting black tea on the table for us. A five minute phone call followed and before the tea was all drunk we had two seats on the first flight of the following morning and a selection of fried ...

... out in force with the rain and feasting on my calves, weren't bothering me. (I was relieved, though, to have my 'she-wee' with me: I did not relish the prospect of leeches on my bum whilst squatting in the bushes!)





Over the next couple of days I abandoned all hope of keeping my boots dry as we crossed waterfall ledges and angry streams, sometimes on rickety log bridges, more often on ...

... of debt and one doctor for every 15,000 people. It makes one wonder how Nepal is going to survive the twenty-first century. Apparently, apart from the tourist boom which accounts for 16% of foreign exchange, there is one bright star on the horizon; Nepal has reached agreement with Bangladesh to supply the latter with Himalayan boulders to shore up flood defences and act as ballast. Not exactly comparable with India's information technology revolution, but at least it's something.