Hello everyone...anyone... This is my very first blog, so please go easy on me as I try to make it interesting! After a pretty straightforward 14 hour flight, if you discount me being 'travel sick' after a bit of turbulence, we arrived in Kathmandu - Nepal's crazy capital. The noise of the constantly tooting horns assaulted our tired senses as the taxi (the mandatory, indestructible and suspension-less Suzuki) weaved its way around massive, colourfully painted trucks, tourist-laiden rickshaws and the occasional suicidal cow. After a couple of nights staying in the tourist district of Thamel, a riot of colour with streets full of fluttering prayer flags, lined with pashmina shops and trekking touts, we caught the tourist bus to Pokhara. Pokhara, Nepal's other major city, is the starting point of all the treks into the Annapurna
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