http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Nepal en-us Thu, 03 Dec 09 12:32:21 +0000 Thu, 03 Dec 09 12:32:21 +0000 Kanchanjungha RegionOn beaten trails or virgin tracks Nepal is a trekker's paradise. The organic rhythm of foot travel is a wonderful way to explore and make meaningful contact with the country. Trekking usually consists of a series of ascents and descents walking 5 to 7 hours 9 per day on average with a guide cook and porters and on some of crew member.The fareast region of Nepal provides uni http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-457404.html Ceremonies on the ghats in a very hot afternoon. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-457302.html Leaving Kathmandu to reach Pokhora and the Annapurnas. Got an uggly deception about the travel agency that booked my Hotel and treks. I Damn that Gurkha Encounters operating at the Kathmandu Guest House. I had to change Hotel and everything. Problem could not budget same activities because I had to wait to go back to Kathmandu to get a refund. They blowed up my time in Pokhora for good withou http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-457130.html Well People sorry I haven't updated this on a while but I was nearly going to give up on it all during the last month. All will be explained in time.My first thought when I got into Kathmandu was 'What the fuck happened this place' The infrastructure of the place was shocking. Dusty dirty potholed roads power lines hanging above peoples heads and wotnot I know there was a war going here but http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Thamel/blog-456853.html Introduction Himalaya of the Nepal Nepal is known as the land of Himalayas. These are the loftiest mountain it the world. The Himalayas extend all over northern Nepal and occupy nearly forty percent of the total area of our country. They consist of several parallel ranges one higher then the other. The higher Himalayas are perpetually covered wit snow that's why They are called the Hi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-456831.html I've been back in Kathmandu for 2 days now and you'll have to excuse my tardy update. After a week in the wilderness I was enjoying the comforts of a city.... semihot showers bakeries and shopping. Navin and Ranjit were kind enough to introduce me to their friend Siddhartha here in Kathmandu and he was off on a trek in the Gimesh Himel region and was kind enough to invite me along. I thou http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-456659.html We started our day at the unsociable hour of 5am to climb to Poon Hill a steep ascent of around 400 metres which we were assured would be worth the effort. It was freezing when we set off by torch light in the pitch black with hundreds of stars above us. Dan saw a shooting star and he wished we make it up and back in one piece.We slowly started to pass other groups who had left earlier as they s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/Annapurna-Base-Camp/blog-456619.html Fact about Nepal Many people leave in the world they have a own aim and habits to reach their destination such as some of people want travel some of them works some of them professionalism any others also people can be from different part of the world like some have their several culture some of have no culture because they always busy as like that. It is me Rajan Khatri. Now I live http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-456470.html The short flight from Kathmandu to Pokhara was great as we managed to get some amazing views of the Himalayas including Everest... see attached photosToday we embark on an 11 day trek into the Annapurna Range. During the trek we will start in Nayapul and visit many different villages along the way to Annapurna Base Camp which is 4100 metres above sea level before returning via a slightly diffe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/Annapurna-Base-Camp/blog-456460.html Back in Kathmandu after a long and steamy hot shower.This buddhist temple if very similar to Buddhanath in appearance differs in far much more ways from others. It is not related to the temple being on top of a hill. It is in the decorum that completely surrounds the area. Gold painted statues plainty of exvotos far much more popular so livelier lovelier than the serious Buddhanath. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/Swayambhunath/blog-456389.html DepartingTangnog4100M630MBshinyThe Inku is our guide to Khare the Basecamp. The land is now a rocky wide valley were small streams of water rush down. This really looks like mountainering now.On the afternoon at Khare we got our mountainering gear adapted and adjusted for the training cession on next day. The Mera is now to be seen on every instant. It s there expecting us.ArrivingKhare49 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-455872.html DepartingKholakharka4100M620MBsnowyEarly morning wakeup brought a surprise to us. During the night it had been snowing and freezing. All equipment left outside of our sheltering tents was ice rigid and covered with a thin white christal shining film of ice.We zigzaged down the forest again and we had lunch in a place that we all agreed to call the Jungle. The closest place in my souvenir to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-455864.html Ahojtetak este sme ani poriadne nepopisali co a ako ani sme fotky nepridali ziadne a uz tu mame zaver Dotrekovali sme aj doturistikovali a teraz sa vyvalujeme v slnecnej Pokhare a uzivame miestne kucharske umenie. A tiez trochu nakupujeme. V sumare by sa dalo povedat ze pocasie nam vyslo super az na par dni ktore sme chceli stravit bocnym vyletom ale tak to nevadi baterky do fotakov nam v http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/Annapurna-Circuit/blog-455756.html Beth and I are in Kathmandu after a quite long plane journey. We left on Monday morning by catching the bus up to Sydney where we were met by Bethrsquos aunties Sue and Reet. We had lunch at the airport and after a long while we boarded the plane. We had got exit row seats which were great and the a380 was a lot of fun in that it was such a big plane. Beth and I had vegetarian and Hindu meals http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-455713.html DepartingPui Ya2700 m730 MBrainy and foggy.After an hour on an obviosly daily runned trail ours started to quit the stream and invited us for our first real sloap. An our later or so we reached our first pass at 3000m. Team Pcture there. Down to our lunchin at 2600m we have the pleasure to see our first sunny noon. To short thought. And we made our way up to Ponggom. There teammates and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-455653.html My arrival in Kathmandu was a relief. After 24 hours spent in waiting boarding flying transiting boarding and flying again the great gulp of warm and thick air out of the plane has been more efficient than any black tea.My first steps in the highly touristic the highly busy Thamel offered me exotism fastly killed by an obvious repetition.Later in the afternoon we had our first team gatheri http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Himalayas/blog-455644.html PokharaOur trip to this city west of Kathmandu started when we surprisingly met the American couple we had befriended previously on the rafting trip in the street outside our hotel the night before we were going to leave. They were also considering visiting the place so we agreed to meet up the next morning at 8am to get a tourist bus no trains in Nepal nicer to travel with friends. However 8a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-455509.html Ahojte uz sme v Tukuche prehupli sme sa cez zasnezene sedlo a presuvame sa coraz nizsie k teplejsim oblastiam ale v noci je stale zima. Tu je uz aj cesta po ktorej sa da chodit na dzipeautobuse ale my mame dost casu tak chodime peso asko sme mali v plane povodne. Vyhlady su stale pekne len teraz nevidime Annapurnu ale viac Dhaulaghiri ale to nam vobec nevadi . Mame sa dobre Sonu skria http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Annapurna/blog-454334.html Having met up with Jan and Dan..the tandem cyclists....and I was sure that was the end of my wonderful coincidencental meetings. But on my last night in Kathmandu I went to a Thai restaurant...Yin and Yang....which was great...but as I sat there Ian and Kristen from England who I had met several days earlier just before crossing the Pass...at the truly rusticdisgusting..Jimi Lodge....walked in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-454127.html Just a quick post to say that we arrived in Nepal with no problems. We spent a couple of days in Kathmandu before flying to Pokhara to start our trek. We are in the second day and so far it has been amazing. Tomorrow morning we get up early 5am to climb for views of the entire Annapurna range. So far we have survived the drop hole toilets cold nights and having one shower every two days We are http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Kathmandu/blog-454114.html