Hotel Shanker

... Del Annapurna Hotel 26th Oct Tour Everest Base Camp depart saturday 1st Nov arrive back to Kathmandu saturday 15th Nov Check into the Shanker Hotel 15th Nov Tour Kathmandu to Delhi (India) depart 22nd Nov arrive Delhi 6th Dec Check into the Hotel Good ...

... one...internet is 350 rupees plus tax for 30 minutes, where in town we pay 40 rupees for 30 minutes...crazy if you ask us! We are planning on relaxing tonight and having dinner at the hotel...hoping for good weather in the morning for our mountain ...

... Heather with some flavoured water.  After a couple of hours, we decided to head inside and then took the short walk into Thamel to use the internet.  Tonight we have no plans, but will likely have dinner at the hotel and relax in our nice room. ...

... need to do this all the time here.) They will check with the office and let Bhimsen know later by phone. My new hotel is the Hotel Shanker. It looks more modern than the L'Annapurna and it too has a swimming pool. Once I am registered and we have left ...

The Hotel we are staying at, The Hotel Shanker, is a hangout for pigeons - no need for alarm clocks here as they give you a wake up call about 5am!   I had brekky in the hotel then Kerryn, Helen, Doug, Peter & myself set out on the walk to ...

... curry & a couple of lemonades for the pricely sum of about AUS $3.. We then made our way back to our Hotel (the Hotel Shanker -  positioned next to the royal palace where Crown Prince Dipendra gunned down 10 of his family members (mum, dad, ...

... . Very nice. They went off exploring as I got photos onto CD and posted stuff. I had to move hotels too as I join the next trip. The Hotel Shanker is really posh not my sort of thing at all. I was only there a few moments as I headed back to go on the ...

... along the riverbed (look out for fossils) to the airstrip village of Jomsom. The next day we were back in the comforts of the Hotel Shanker drinking expresso and eating Indian food by the pool in the gardens. Like I said awhile back, this trip has it ...

... time we landed. Once we arrived in Kathmandu we took a taxi to pick up our bags from Ganesh Himal and headed to the Shanker, our fancy hotel to finish the trip.  We had planned on only 3 nights, but when we couldn't get a room at Ganesh Himal, ...

... hands from the diamox!  So today we took 1/2 a pill in the a.m. and p.m. Saturday morning we had the buffet breakfast at the hotel, it was quite good and we found enough to fill us up.  It is quite an ornate room we ate in.  There are ...

... we decided to have lunch out by the pool as we are allowed to stay on the grounds until we leave for our flight, where the hotel is providing us with a drive to the airport.  We sat by the pool side, enjoying the last of our time, watching children ...

... Thamel region, where we have a few last things to pick up...which seems to be the case each day...but hopefully for real this time!  We plan on relaxing tonight at the hotel and have no immediate plans for tomorrow, other than not waking up at ...

... . Ook was er nergens licht want (zo bleek later), 10 uur per dag wordt de elektriciteit afgezet. Ons hotel (The Shanker) was een oase van rust (met elektriciteitsvoorziening overigens). Daar ontmoetten wij Willy en René. We konden gelijk aanschuiven bij ...

... , dodging puddles, holes and assorted filth to say nothing of cars, buses, rickshaws and motor bikes.     The Shanker Hotel  is straight British Raj, with doormen to greet, grand stairway up to an equally grand ballroom, with cloth ...

... in about an hour, then have the morning to ourselves before we catch our flight back to Kathmandu around noon.  We have certainly enjoyed our time here but are looking forward to a few days of luxury at the Shanker Hotel in Kathmandu when we get ...

... put things in our packs. We land safely in KAthmandu and catch a taxi to pick up our back packs at the Shanker and then onto our new hotel. The drive is crazy as we remembered with all the traffic and horn honking, but everyone seems to be calm, ...