Windy Hill . Hotel Nagarkot

Having left Pokhara and the intention to cross back into India, we suddenly changed our minds and stomped on down to the Immigration office in Kathmandu and got our VISA's renewed for another 2 weeks. This having been the contributing factor in finishing early at the orphanage has made us feel bitter sweet... but when it came down to it neither of us wanted to leave Nepal... well not quite yet!<br><br>So, very spontaneously we decided on doing another trek!... And ...

<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>"How do you write a blog about a trek?"<br><br>It was the 3rd to last<br>day of our trek and we were climbing up a path through eroded scree to<br>a pasture that we could just barely make out over the ridge when Yasmin<br>asked me that question. So far we had hiked past half frozen lakes<br>that ranged in color from emerald to black at over 4,000 meters,<br>breakfasted on local yak cheese next to a gray glacial river ...

Wow...so much has happened over the last 9 days that I hardly know where to begin! I took my journal with me again so I could record in detail my latest adventure, but it means I can publish the highlights here (or should I say lowlights?). This was my longest trek yet and also going up to 3,800m was also a first. Once again I found it a valuable learning experience for a number of reasons. I also found myself looking forward to getting back to Kathmandu&#8230;..I ...

... peaceful except for the group of men from Kathmandu who came out to have a party directly in front of our hotel window most of the night. A dog took up howling when the partiers finally went to bed so we were a bit tired on our way to Sundarijal the next day. Said good bye to Sunil and spent the next couple of days sick and sore but glad I'd done my first trek. To get a better look at the pictures double click on the picture and ...

... 8217;t enough to make me run away, so after the bungee master&#8217;s countdown (&#8220;Three, two, one!&#8221;) I plunged off the edge and realized that &#8220;****ing hell, I&#8217;m actually falling down&#8221;, hearing my desperate scream echoing in the canyon. The free fall was over within seconds; though it was long enough make you hear the hum in your ears. After the free fall the rope took me back high up, only to make me scream again. I was ...

... to our wearing sandals and shorts, but then cramming all seven of us into a very small cab to travel to another casino, who welcomed our US Dollars (even though the most anyone bet/spent was $50 US) until 5am<br> ~Leaving the Kathmandu casino as the sun rose and walking down the streets of Thamel, which were eerily quiet at that hour and still compared to the constant noise of vehicle traffic and vendor activity during the day<br ...

... Also, to deal with this issue, they supposedly have to get rid of 'excess' power in the system, which is called rotating 'load shedding'. Supposedly, that's REALLY why the power goes out - its that they have TOO MUCH power in the system! Anne has firsthand experience working in Nepal. It was really interesting to hear her experience dealing with the people in her NGO. There are about a dozen people in total and pretty much everyone else is Nepali ...

Hugh: We nearly didn't make it to Nagarkot. The bus had been going for about 20 seconds when Ros said "is the road tilting or is it the bus?". It was actually the bus that was tilting, and Ros now wanted us to get off and wait for the next one, if it wasn't for the fact that it was the last bus of the day. She then remembered the advert on the London Underground that said a London bus can lean 22 degrees before toppling over, so thought we'd probably be ok. Nagarkot ...

... within an hour the square was packed with hundreds of locals, young and old. Probably the best people watching time we've had in Nepal. Many different castes were there with their different best clothes on, the old men and ladies, and all so much more colourful then what wed become used to in Nepal. We went out and sat on the ground amongst them so that we could just watch and stayed their until it became dark. So, as I said.. thought Id been really ...

Near the 'Guesthouse at the End of the universe' I am now with a sleeping Mahesh on the night of his 21st birthday. We are staying in a little blip of a hotel surrounded by the Kali Temple and followers of KaliBaba who have been amicable enough to let us stay at 2/3rds the cost in a corner room with a view that could be renamed "God Land". Remote little Nagarkot is where our destination was today. Truly the End of the western man's universe. On a clear day, from the window i am now ...