The border crossing into pakistan went super smooth,although there was nobody else around which felt super weird it was a complete no mans land.we hung around at the border for the closing of the border ceremonywhich was pretty cool with pakistan rangers somehow managing to kick there hats off!! there was a massive crowd with pakistani songs being played over loud halers and the crowds were so vibrant and colourfull. once the ceremony had finished we headed to Lahore with a million and one other passengers on a tiny bus,it was boiling and we both had to sit in seperate gender [View Full Entry]

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after a few days of hard travelling via delhi and a few hospitals (helly had a bit of a temperature but is now well on the mend) they were an interesting experience with one being completely deserted(28 dats later style) and the first ward we saw at the second was the "disaster ward",but we got sorted. were now in amritsar and we went to see the golden temple last night all lit up, it was amazing ,everyone is very friendly here and welcoming and you can tell it is a very special place,anyway hopefully we'll be on our way to pakistan [View Full Entry]

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hey everyone after our time in agra we were due to ctch a train to ranthambore national park to see some tigers ,however our train was cancelled so instead we had to do a 200km detour via jaipur which cost us an extra 15p there goes the budget.we finally got to ranthembore and found a nice hotel with a pool ,which also ran safaris.we went on 3 safaris and was very close to a couple tigers according to the monkeys.not that we could see them!! however we did see a sloth bear which is even rarer,so that made up for it. [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone thought we'd say hi as we've been on our own now for just over a week.its been abit of an adventure getting here,it took us over 24hours of travelling from kathmandu via a night bus then cycle rickshaw through customs which was easier than expected, then another bus then a tuk tuk then 6hrs wait at gorakphur train station watching cows dogs and rats happily wander through the station and its platforms.the train finally got us into lucknow at around 10pm and we stayed at the not so "grand' hotel.the next day we spent a further 12 hours at [View Full Entry]

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Hi evryon hope your all ok we've finally got bak onto the internet.the trek around dhaulagiri has been amazing.took some good photos but not sure if will have time to put them on as the pc is sooooooooo slow. the trek was bloody hard work at tms,we reachd an altitude of 5200m and we had weather ranging from 40degrees too propr brass monkey weather,snow .after the trek we fnshed at aplace called jomsom which is in far north nepal,and we were meant too gt a flght out but the weather was crap and remained crap for 3days,our trek guide was trying [View Full Entry]

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The quest for visas has been a long and tiresome journey, our nepalese vis succumbed quite easily via post.next was the chinese one! which involved setting off from the lake district @ 6.30 to manchester where we came across rush hour traffic ,and due to having no A-Z mild confusion.after receiving a guiding light from a very pleasant post office clerk we were soon heading in the right direction, and were even walking up the stairs to the visa office,only to find that our wallets were indeed empty.........Doh! so another mission was formed in order to find cash. after drivng round [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone,as a lot of you know we've been abit unsure about which site would be best to keep you all updated.We're pretty sure that we'l stick with this one now.It's now just five weeks till we go and we've just received our nepalese visas back,we've still got to go to birmingham and manchester to sort our indian,chinese and pakistani visas out ,but hopefully that should all go smoothly.Anyway this was just a quick note to get use to the site so bye bye for now and we,ll try and keep you updated as we go :-) [View Full Entry]

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