http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Nepal en-us Mon, 09 Nov 09 07:46:47 +0000 Mon, 09 Nov 09 07:46:47 +0000 C'est l que le drapeau a t dpos.C'est la vale des Torrents tous les porteurs et les trekeurs passent par l pour les valles de l'INKU.Nous sommes la priode sche ce dcor sec en apparence rsonne pourtant du ruisselement de milliers de petits ruisseaux.Nous ne verrons pas cette valle devenir un chapelet de lacs puis se couvrir de neige et enfin r accueillir les porteurs et les trekeu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-451262.html Le drapeau tout comme moi sommes enfin aux pieds des gants des Himalayas. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-451255.html Ahojtetak sa vam hlasime z Chame kde je prvy internet na tejto ceste dalsi bude asi az za 34 dni. Zatial sme mali pekne pocasie prebojovali sme sa cez tropy do jemnejsieho podnebia takze nam uz nie je az tak teplo ani v dlhych nohaviciach. Prvy den sme mali pekny vyhlad na nejake zasnezene kopce potom dva dni nic a vcera opat tentokrat aj vieme ze to co sme videl bolo Manaslu ktore na http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/Annapurna-Circuit/blog-451100.html We arrived in Nepal after a week or so in Rajasthan. Although we had enjoyed our exploits in Sariska it was a breath of fresh air literally to arrive in vibrant Kathmandu. Physically and spiritually Rajasthan and Nepal seem close but Kathmandu's clean streets smiling faces and bustling activity were actually poles apart from the squalid gutters and sullen resignation we'd seen in India.The fl http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-449950.html Lekker relax zogoed als niks gedaan.We doen ons tegoed aan lekker eten een frisse pint lezen wat in onze reisgidsen op terrasjes en slenteren door de stad.Enkel de smog het lawaai en de chaos zijn spelbreker.Er is geen ontsnappen aan...Als je niet oppast ben je zo suf als een pad door de constante hoofdpijn.Wij houden ons rustig en lopen rond met mondmaskertjes idioot zicht maar het helpt toch http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Thamel/blog-449655.html Vandaag vroeg op met bijstand van onze gids door de strenge TibetaansChineese grenscontrole geloodst en finaly on our on Nepal in.Het doet deugd van alleen onder ons te zijn en op het eerste zicht lijken de Nepalezen een stuk relaxter als de Tibetanen dat zal het klimaat zijn zeker...Op zoek naar betrouwbaar en goedkoop vervoer naar Kathmandu lopen we de Belgische groep van in Sakya tegen het http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Thamel/blog-449653.html There is many things you have to know when you start planning you trip it's been a month now every since i started planing my trip and there i still lots of things i have got a clue. Every each day finish almost same with hours spend online trying to gain all information's i can before i arrive in india. And is most stressful i had my passport stole in spain not longer then 2 weeks ago wrrrrrr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-449422.html Hereby a fiew pictures of the himalaya trek to Kalapathar.16 days up and down but mostly up. It was greatMichel http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-449216.html Nepal has been on my wishlist for ever...the land up there...I did not know exactly what to expect. Read a fair amount of blogs on the country but not that many were very glorious.So here we are to judge by ourselves. My parents are in Bangkok for few days enjoying grandparenting with Leslie and we are off for few adventurous days. Our first stop Kathmandu. We did not stay in Thamel the touris http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-449201.html Our crossing from India to Nepal came at the end of a gruelling twelve hour bus journey and the start of the most important days in Nepal's Dasain festival. Whist we filled in our imergration forms the cheery Nepalese officials a marked contrast from the surly Indian ones explain the festival and advised that the country was almost at a stand still was everyone visited family. There would be n http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Tanzen/blog-448341.html Special Nepal Travel and Trekking Packages for 2010 Special Nepal Travel PackagesWe provides you Special Nepal Travel and Trekking Packages for 2010 including Nepal Travel Trekking Tour Information With Tips and Package . Nepal is a unique destination for travel trekking and tours because of its unbeatable combination of natural beauty and cultural riches. Trek and Tour around Nepal you wil http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/Annapurna-Base-Camp/blog-448317.html Getting to Kathmandu takes about 6 hours on a coach which we thought would be more comfortable then the local buses but hey mistake there. We had seats at the back and it was the bumpiest ride ever we both on a few occasions almost fell of the seat and i don't know how Dani actually managed to sleep on that thing. Well after surviving that we arrived in Kathmandu and because we did not really h http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-448299.html It started like most good ideas over a beer. We'd met a couple of ragtag randomers in Agra who were also on their way to Nepal. Bike touring came up in conversation one of us had done it before it was perfect Rock n roll rev it up let's ride.We trekked with these oddballs see previous entry and then our collective focus turned to the upcoming petrolfest. The first and most obvious problem http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-447979.html Irsquove spoken with a lot of people here in Kathmandu over the past week about music education opportunities for advanced western music and I hear nothing but frustration from teachers students and administrators. First quality western instruments are very hard to find and even harder to afford. More importantly though there is a general lack of advanced western music teachers. Nepal http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Lazimpat/blog-447872.html So we sat around the rooftop cafe for the afternoon with a French girl Sophie and a Czech guy called Lada. They were not a couple but had hooked up to travel across the border into Nepal. Private buses only ran three times a week in the morning so doing this would mean staying another night in Varanasi. This would have been totally fine but we were itching to get on to Nepal being the second c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/blog-447816.html Itrsquos pretty strange because in Nepal they do book swapping. You hand in a book and you get some credit to buy another book at the shop. You still have to pay a bit of money for a book but itrsquos not too much. Itrsquos hard to hand over a book that Irsquove just read and really liked but I get to read more books We just did a really big trek up in the Himalayas. Annapurna Base Camp http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-447772.html It was amazing up there. The Annapurnarsquos are really something. Early morning views were the most spectacular as cloud rolled in most days by about 10 or 11am. It made for perfect hiking weather with the cloud cover in the middle of the day. The diverse flora was also incredible. One day hiking in subtropical forest and the next in alpine vegetationThe porters are absolutely awesome. This http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/Annapurna-Base-Camp/blog-447767.html I got some cool presents for my birthday. My favourite was the strawberry bubble gum. I nearly ate the whole roll in one day I can blow little bubbles now Mum and Dad and Aiden also gave me a singing bowl with an OM inside a necklace which Irsquom wearing now a chocolate hiking bar and a Tibetan bracelet. Everyone on the whole trail knew it was my birthday and gave me some sweets and sang me http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/Annapurna-Base-Camp/blog-447766.html I asked the people in the restaurant in Kathmanda ldquodo you have juicerdquo They said they did. They even said they had ldquoReal Juicerdquo When it came it was fake juice. It was fake mango juice It was really yummy though I went out the front of the restaurant and made a friend. He had a sewing shop. I thought it was a bit weird that someone with a sewing shop didnrsquot have http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-447764.html Our plane from Beijing took us to Abu Dhabi. It meant overnighting in the airport there which is a pretty big set up. It was our first time flying with Etihad. The food was excellent and the boys gave the inflight entertainment a 1010. Our morning flight to Kathmandu was detoured to Bangladesh due to bad weather. We refueled and were soon on our way back to Kathmandu. The Kathmandu Garden Hote http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Pashupatinath-Temple/blog-447763.html