The Last Resort Dhulikhel

... comme un porc et j'etais essouffle, je regrettais ma derniere cigarette avant le saut. Vais regarder les autres sauter d'un point un peu plus bas que le pont.
Ensuite me rends au bar et commande un rhum et coke, pour me remettre de mes emotions et me preparer pour le prochain saut. Puis retourne voir les autres sauter, plein de filles et de nepalais ont eu du mal a sauter, car arrives sur le ponton de saut je peux vous dire que ca fait haut, 160m entre le pont et la riviere. Et ...

... partout dans la ville. Achetons un cadre en bois, pour mettre a un mur, et en forme de volets ciseles.... Puis on parle avec un gamin et on lui file des sous pour qu'il nous achete des masques, afin de nous proteger de toute la poussiere et de la pollution...
Marchons encore une bonne heure et rentrons en taxi a l'hotel, vers 17h30. Fumage puis vers 18h20 allons au Dolce Vitta manger une assiette d'antipastis (comme a Rome Celine), trop trop bons, puis lasagnes bolognaises ...

... 80°15’E) lies in the extreme south west of the Terai and covers an area of. 305 sq km (including extension area) and ranges in altitude from 90-270 m. The vegetation cover within the reserve has been estimated as approximately two-third forest and one-third grassland (Balson, 1976). Of these, the Suklaphanta grassland is probably the largest patch of grassland of Nepal, occupying an area of 54 sq km. Twenty-six species of ...

... like 6 courses, didnt forget to first give some of the first course as an offering to the gods and then tucked in. 6 courses later I was stuffed as was everyone else!

Next day I checked out of my hotel and into the Hyatt and I wasa officialy starting the tour - no more freedom! Morbning was spent at the holiest Hindu temple in Nepal Pashupatinath - it was the second day of a major ferstival where they visit the temples, walk around the different ...

... teens wearing Avril Lavigne shirts. I know – what?!
Which leads us to ask ourselves – how does this work? Obviously
there was a surplus of Avril Lavigne shirts did her agency decide to
give them away – and if they are given away does someone decide
hmmm-yes, Avril Lavigne shirts are going to Nepal; Omarion shirts
are going to Pakistan. It's just a bit wild to see her face on
dark-brown skinned men and boys who probably ...

... stop at 50m away from border bridge where the China side border check office is, you are kindly required to hike on your own to cross the border bridge which is 50ms long, then check in Nepal side, you can get the Nepal visa upon arrival with 30USD, please prepare one photo at passport size to get Nepal Visa.

Next step, you need to find a car or bus towards Kathmandu, 50ms ahead from ...

... He is extremely patient with me and insists that I am doing very well ("derry ramro" in Nepali, not how you would spell it but as it sounds!).

The sun was shining and it was extremely warm so armed with the advice that a taxi to Patan Durbar Square should be around 200nrp I thought a little excursion out of the main city was in order. Here is where I learnt my next lesson. I should have remembered from my experience with taxi drivers in Addis Ababa that it is not always ...

... vomiting in his own lap in front of the other diners, what i assume to be the owner, or certainly co-manager, took us aside to explain to us that if we wanted something in nepal, be it trekking, safaris, tour guides or anything else, he was the man to see. we thanked him, but said we would not need a guide for the day as we were going to the durbar square, which is described in my guide book as 'round the corner' from the thamel district.
one hour later ...

... and has traveled to 50 of the 75 districts in Nepal. He has driven and walked for days to get to inaccessible villages to get data and see the situation in these places. He says he will tell me so many stories of what it's like in all those areas.

Aug. 11
The roads washed out overnight so we were stuck 2 km from the Chinese border in Tatopani Hot Springs until the roads were cleared and rebuilt by helpful villagers and bulldozers.
We ...

... als gedacht, erst hiess es, die Strasse sei wegen der Regenmassen weg, dann waren es Rebellen, die die Strasse blockierten und ein Weiterfahrt unmoeglich machten. Uns deuchte eine Verschwoerung zugunsten der einheimischen Taxifahrer, denn ein Bus fahre ja nicht. Regenmassen hin, Rebellen her, wir machten uns zu Fuss auf den Weg Richtung Kathmandu, 36 km entfernt irgendwo hinter den Bergen. Geholfen hat uns das in Tibet hinzugewonnene ...