After a very long 24 hour journey from Cape Town, 3 flight changes and 7 hours in Abu Dhabi airport (very small) we arrived in Kathmandu Nepal. Relieved from being off the smelliest planes of our lives (evidently some cultures don't know how to flush airplane toliets) we headed through immigration. Got our visas on arrival which beats standing in the line at the Nepalese Embassy before we came. Headed outside to catch our transfer to the Kathmandu Guest House and were told by our pickup that "today is a very expensive day in Nepal" after which he asked us for [View Full Entry]

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After Cambodia I made a quick overnight stop back in Bangkok to good old Kao San Road. That's the main tourist area and has lots of shopping and cheap food. I love Thai food so it was good to have a chance to fill my face. Then it was off to Nepal. It's really expensive to fly direct to Kathmandu so I found a cheaper flight through Bangladesh. The flight required a stop over in Dhaka overnight and was quite an entertaining journey. There were 2 of us single girls and a Japanese couple on the plane, otherwise it was pretty [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from Nepal, land of the monsoon! It started on June 10th, and well, there's been a lot of rain. It's not so bad in Kathmandu and in the Valley, but everywhere else, it rains SO much. My clothes are probably permanently mud-splattered, and it's almost pointless to carry an umbrella because you'll get drenched anyway. In the midst of this lovely weather, we decided to take off for another remote village. Well, we didn't think it was that remote. We were told a four hour bus ride from Kathmandu and then a thirty minute walk. Wrong-o, my friends! Apparently it's [View Full Entry]

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Hello all , well I am back from 2 trips I took . 1 was at Bardia national park Amazing and even though *I did not get to see a Tiger I did see Rihno and Elephants !!!! and the lodge was wonderful , I did a rafting trip which was not white water for a change but was all day and the raft was so old the poor guys had to pump it up so many times , while I just looked around LOL ! I decided to go to Lumbani and see were Budddddha was born , but what [View Full Entry]

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Not quite sure what all the fuss is about. Climb 29,000 feet sure, we did it three times. Well in my dreams. So we had an amazing last 11 days trekking in the Himalayas. Had a few set backs, but it was yeah amazing. We flew in to the town/village of Lukla on a 19 seater "Twin Otter" propeller plane(quite an interestingly steep and short runway) on the 11th of June. From there we had a small breakfast and started walking. We continued walking until the afternoon of the 21st when we decided to sit and return back to Kathmandu. The [View Full Entry]

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Tengboche, Debuche, Pengboche, Dingboche, Lobuche. The days and villages began to blur together in a single image of short stone walls, dusty pastures, alpine scrub, lodge kitchens, squat toilets, and frigid Himalaya mornings. Walking out at dawn to wash my face and teeth by the village stream, sitting back on my haunches as the icy water rises steaming off my face and neck and I breathe hard into the thin, frigid air. And of course, always, there was the monsoon fog. Throughout each day it perched shifty and billowing with ominous intent on the low valley walls, whitewashing the sky and [View Full Entry]

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5.4.2008 KATHMANDU VALLEY Po navratu z Chitwanu jsme hned dalsi den vyrazili na dvoudenni trek, aby jsme si taky trochu protahli kosti. Radi bysme podnikli i neco delsiho, ale bohuzel nebylo tolik casu. Dojeli jsme do vesnicky Nala (asi 14km od Kathmandu), odkud jsme pak dloouho stoupali strme vzhuru, az jsme se dostali na hreben, ktery se vine kolem celeho kathmandskeho udoli. Pak uz jsme jen chodili krasnou krajinou terasovitych policek s bramborama a psenici (na zacatku dubna uz meli pred prvni sklizni; jinde uz dokonce sklizeli obili, mlatilo se tak, ze ho polozili pres silnici a cekali, az pres nej [View Full Entry]

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Oh geez, I don't even know where to start with this entry. I just got back from an amazing week in a village called Phalebas. It was quite the fiasco trying to get there: 2 hour bus ride to Kathmandu, 7 hour bus ride to Pokhara, but then there was something up with a bridge being closed, so we had to spend the night in Pokhara. After a three hour bus ride to Kusma, we then had a 3 1/2 hour hike up two small mountains to get to the village. Phalebas looks like a cross between Austria from the 'Sound [View Full Entry]

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Well I have arrived and I have had lots of requests to see my new home! Well here you are, I will post more pictures once my Mum comes out in 2 weeks and gives it a good clean!! Keep the emails coming as there is nothing to do so I am going to become an internet hermit! [View Full Entry]

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Information Blackout Belies Return to Normality (New York, June 17, 2008) - The Chinese government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) risk tarnishing the Olympic movement by holding the torch relay in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, Human Rights Watch said today. Lhasa, where the torch is due to arrive on June 21, has remained off-limits to foreign media and independent observers since protests began there in mid-March. " The situation in Lhasa is anything but normal. The authorities continue to fear that Tibetans may try to stage further protests, and Tibetans continue to fear that they can be arrested at [View Full Entry]

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