Shangri-La Pokhara

... un rhum coke bien charge.... Bien sympa derriere ses airs pas sympa du tout a la Bruce Lee... Bref je repars un peu bancale et sur le retour croise une patrouille de police ou de l'armee je sais pas trop ils etaient en treillis camoufle. Et je commence a leur parler et deconner avec eux, leur ai parle au moins dix minutes a dire que des conneries et a delirer, mais on s'est bien marre, et meme le chef etait sympa. Ils ont bien vu que j'etais bourre mais ils ont bien ...

... of everyone taking off and felt myself get more and more nervous as each person left.<br><br>My instructor was from Bulgaria and she didn't seem quite as enthusiastic as some of the other instructors (probably a good thing). We had a peaceful glide down from the mountain, picking up thermals occasionally and lifting up up up...that was the scariest part. I'll let Mike tell you about his experience....his was a bit scarier. After forty minutes we landed by a lake and ...

... an actor and one of the film crew. <br><br>From the town of Marpha, we jumped in a bus to get down to the town of Tatopani since the recent addition of a road makes hiking less asthetic and uncomfortable. In the bus, we passed several groups who were hiking the road; the combination of dust, heat and ...

... bakker og bjerge. Foerst havde vi megadaarlig samvittighed over at den lille mand skulle baere den store rygsaek, men han blev ved med at sige "no problem&#8221;, og da vi kom ud paa trekket opdagede vi hvorfor. Med os som kunder havde Majla scoret en vaskeaegte loppetjans. Hvad nogle af de andre portere bliver udsat for lignede til forveksling oldgamle torturmetoder, naar de med vanvittige oppakninger paa 50-60 kilo blev sendt op og ned af stejle bjerge &#8211; ofte i ...

... the weight and Em was with an English guy called Nigel that was a legend. We got strapped to our pilots and got all the safety gear on waiting for a big gust of wind. Em went first and basically its just a massive parachute so you have to run off the edge of the mountain and just go for it, which was a bit of a scary feeling but it all happens so quick, before you know it your floating in the ...

... I shared my first plate of Daal Bhaat with them and 3 volunteers on their last day.<br>One of only 2 people eating with fingers , I goofed up grandly using the wrong hand.<br>In Nepal the left hand must never touch food. It is the dirty hand, the one used when nature calls.<br>Or at least this is what I read before arriving here. I ate with my left hand and realized my error after the meal. Good thing I was practising with a group of Europeans and ...

So after an early start we had a great bus journey from Kathmandu to Pokhara, the views and what was going on around us was really engrossing, so we were pretty much just staring out of the window for 7 hours. Journey was very bumpy though, sweaty and a bit of scary driving at times. <br><br>When we arrived in Pokhara there were thousands of touts waiting for us to get off the bus, it was mad. Nearly everyone we were with ...

... The weather is very warm in the day<br>still although at night it cools down nicely. There is a great beer<br>here called Everest with ABV of 5%, and we have just had a steak<br>dinner. For lunch we had some traditional Nepalese food which you are<br>supposed to eat with your hands - no cutlery, so we had that and then<br>spent the rest of the day relaxing after approx 20 hours of travelling<br>the day before.<br><br>We are looking at doing a short trek here in the<br>next few days ...