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Horizons of Himalaya
I was astonished by the steepness of the descent from Tansen to the junction with the national highway. Then the road levelled out and hugged the hillside until delivering me to the first pass. To my delight a long descent to the valley floor lay ahead, and through a gap in the hills came my first sighting of far-off Himalayan snow-caps. From one …
Kathmandu and Village Home Stay
... snowy peaks we have been wondering what mysteries lie hidden in these valleys. Now, after many adventures within the quirky corridors of Kathmandu, where we discovered ancient temples housing living goddesses (and countless monkeys!),stained stupas being circumnavigated at dawn, the most holy of Hindu sites paying homage to the deceased, and a typical Nepali Thanksgiving dinner together.
We celebrate the success of our final home stay where we lived ...
Nepal Trek - Day 3 Chyamche to Bagarchhap
... this was his first and last time as a porter. It was a long, hot day and he carried one and a half regular loads. More experienced Raju (approx 45 years old) carried two back packs tied together by rope strapped across his forehead in famous porter style on his 30th or more times around APC. Ishwor struggled to understand our Australian accented English at first but after a short time he tuned in and we learned to ...
End of Pokhara Days
Today is our last day in Pokhara! We have booked our bus ticket to Chitwan, leaving early tomorrow morning. It's really surreal to think we are actually leaving after being here for more than a month. It's been a lovely place to be stuck, we have had some great adventures and met some really excellent people but staying for so long in one town was never our plan and it feels good to be finally moving on.
This week it is Dasain, the most important festival ...
Annapurna Base Camp Trek - Day Five
... the bat indecent three nights before but by mid-afternoon it was deemed to be too far so we stopped in the village of Bamboo a bit passed 3pm.
Everyone was drained from the previous few days though it felt good to have done it, and also have made it all the way up and not got sick. I had a surprising good pizza for tea and chatted with another trekking group who were on their way up. Then it was bed time where I slept amazingly well after using the last of the iPod battery.
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