Taj Annapurna Kathmandu

Today I leave India but although I awake early I feel that if I have a late breakfast at 9.30 with some biscuits and sweets I have with me I can last until I arrive at the hotel in Kathmandu. At 9AM I receive a phone call to say my transport to the airport is here but I have not finished packing or had breakfast and it is too early as my flight goes late afternoon. I then go and have breakfast on the terrace again and go back to my room. At this point I decided to check what time my flight go...

Early morning sees us once again sitting in the dinning room waiting news of the flights from Kathmandu. My porter returned back to Namche Bazaar yesterday so one of the others will take my bag as they are meeting passengers from the flight today. It is a fairly short walk around to the airport entrance. Again we have to go through baggage weigh in and excess luggage dues. We had none to pay , well we had eaten all the oranges and apples we carried on our flight up, so we then proceed to the ...

At nine oclock ,following a decent breakfast for once ,( you know bacon tomatoes, sausages, toast and tea) I waited in the lobby for my guide for today. I am going to see the area around Patan. We set off for Patan driving through dusty roads ( if you can call them that) and having visited the religious sites last year see a totally different view of Nepal. The fields we pass are gren with the crops growing in the fields but the houses are old and the bricks are decaying and need repairing. S...

As we near Doha we are served breakfast ( continental of course) and then we approach the airstrip which looks like it has been built in the middle of the desert but has quite a large built up area. We are taken to the airport lounge for a 3 hour wait for the flight to Kathmandu. It is supposed to have a top rating for duty free shopping ( only if you were looking for gold and jewelry items or cigaretes) and as I am just passing through I have a look round ( no postcards worth buying ) so I g...

I've made it to Kathmandu and I'm going to try and recap the last week and a half. This trip has been so amazing. Samuel and I had an amazing time together and that is all there is to it. I had even written in my journal that I wanted to meet and be friends with an Isreali before my trip was done (seeing as the Isrealis I had met until then were very stand-offish). The next day I met Samuel and the rest was Goan history. The day after his pure drug induced night scare we hit the relaxing hard...