Gorkha Hamlet Resort Kathmandu

... a 7-8 day trek (pretty short compared to some of the others!). Should be beautiful and hopefully not toooo cold! Will update more when we get a chance.

Check out our posts from Tibet. We have a cafe that allows us to download quickly and easily!!! Lots of pictures of our time there.

Hope all is well for all of you
B & D

... and timing. What we share is a common attraction for this slab of broken rock jutting over five miles in the sky— a quest for answers from this undeniably impressive region.
Since the beginning of the century, Westerners have been trying to find their place on the top of the world. In the early going, it was George Mallory and Eric Shipton who led grand expeditions, but not until 1953 could Edmund Hillary declare,"We ...

... by lunch and r est until 13. In the afternoon you meditate until 17 and you get some fruit and get some rest until 18. 18-19 is mediation and then you watch a dvd with instructions for the next day and more explanation of the meditation technique is given. After this again some meditation and you go to bed at 21 at night.

The hardest thing for me was that after 4 days you were supposed to sit without moving for a hour three times a day in the ...

Hi Guys,
I thought I would start up my travel blog and tell you about my experience to Nepal. Last may my brother and I decided to take up a challenge and head straight to Nepal and do the famous mt Everest base camp trek. We did 3months of training before as some parts are steep and some parts are cold.

We did a lot of research on who to book with as we were wanting to do our trek on our own with a guide and of ...

... the whole group has tried it out and had a good walk around it and of course a papparazi moment!!!
We have (as always) had a good prescription of ground clearance and were all getting pretty good with pick axes, shovels...etc. We are also convinced that the principle has a sharehold in a Nepali cement firm with the amount of steps he wants built!!! We have made a nice flower bed in the school due to having to move the only naturally flowered area in the school and ...

... reverted to my Dhal Bhat.....you live and learn!!!!!

I also had my first try at washing clothes 'Nepali' style in a river with supervision from Aama, i resolve that i am definetely rank amateur, as i spend most of the time thinking so how do i turn it to 40 and switch it on....but i am getting better!!!!

So work moves on at a pace and I am falling in love with Nepal!!!!
Keep you all posted and feel free to sign the guest book!!!

... built sometime in the 60's. There are about 8 different lines to go through and no one knows who should go to what line or even what they should be doing in at every station. Its like the British came over in 1963 built them an airport and showed them how do run everything, then said "here you go, take it from here" The only thing they do efficiently is take your $40 entry fee. Next you need to go through the swine flu ...

... Nim* h*d decided to t*ke * short cut through the Middle of Nowhere (seriously, I've found it) to get us to Ny*l*m before our permit expired, but it turned out to be * dirt ro*d, not designed for buses. However, his *ce driving skills c*me into pl*y, *nd I'm h*ppy to report th*t we're *ll *live *nd well, with only * few loose teeth *nd j*rred vertebr*e. My high spirits in the morning h*d dwindled to *ll but nothing *nd in the evening someone told me "I thought you'd f*llen *sleep ...

I can't quite figure out if Nepal is rampantly inefficient because they have a 6 day work week, or they have a 6 day work week because they are unbelievably inefficient. Surya tells me I'm so European and North American. Well, really anything but Nepali. Everything takes hours and sometimes longer than you think it should, or that they tell you it will, so I breathe and try to relax as we show up to places where people say they will be but aren't and plans change ...

... ladies, and regular folk just going round and round spinning the wheels.

Next I took a taxi to Pashupati, a large complex of Hindu temples. The largest seemed terribly interesting, but it is closed to non-Hindus. Most interesting is the river flowing at the back of the complex, the Bagmati. (Actually, it's more of a series of big stagnant puddles, but whatever.) Along the river are several ghats, platforms where people bring the deceased to be cremated ...