Nepal
June 13th 2009 We had heard from media coverage and online websites that it wasn't perhaps the best time to be going to Nepal: there was civil unrest and fuel shortages, with road blocks, strikes and protests. So it was with some trepidation that we left Sikkim on 2nd May, travelling by jeep to the border at Kakarvitta. It was misty and drizzling as we came down the Teesta valley, but it soon heated up as we con
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