Kathmandu Travel Blogs

(TODAY) "Excuse me.  How much are your marigolds?" (3 MONTHS ON.  THOUGHTS.)  Three months to the day since I started this journey.  Thoughts?  Yeah, plenty of them I guess.  A miniature milestone reached.  A pause for thought.  More thoughts than I had expe…

  We walked back to Hotel new Raj, our guesthouse around 2am. It's close. My friend rang bell. Another thought was if no one opens, we might go back to ask Derandra to sleep with him? Then young boy who I met him before and who also said that he wanted to take me around town came wi…

We finally reached Everest Base Camp at 1.30pm on 8th Apr 2006 after a five hour trek from Gorak Shep. The base camp was a sea of colourful tents and was the home to the climbers attempting the summit and their support staff. The tents were set up on the rocks and boulders right before the famous K…

4 weeks to the day back in the States and the re-acclimation gets smoother.  Like previous trips, over time the comparisons that are inevitable between the place you’ve been to and the place you are, start to fade.  It’s amazing to me that the knowledge that I can be anywhere in the w…

  After back from pokara, we searched for a new guesthouse to stay. Taxi driver tried to send us somewhere he knew but we just wanted him to drive and searched the nice one then we passed Annapurna Hotel. Ale told him to stopped and went to check it. I waited for him in the tax…

Joseph the Spaniard, whom I met in Zhongdian, convinced me to join him on a 18 day trek around mount Manaslu in one of the last remaining restricted areas in Nepal. Restricted in Nepal means that they can charge unsuspecting tourists more money in the form of expensive permit fees and entrance fees…

After trek round Manaslu we went back to Kathmandu take some break and arrange some matters for our next trek to Mt. Everest. But when we arrived to the city we founded out that organize all this staff won't be so easy like we expected cause everybody went on strike because of two mu…

  Chris and I hiked west from town, following irrigation ditches through green fertile fields toward Swayambhu Hill. We lingered to watch a family work their land. An old man, his wife, and daughter weeded, seeded, and tamped a field with old, crude tools while two sons harvested leaf lettuc…

There's no mystery about the daily lives of the people in Kathmandu and other villages in Nepal. From early dawn till late evening, doors and windows open, roller doors go up and people pour into the streets to carry out their daily routines. Everything becomes public with washing clothes, the…

Nepal. March 12th 1990.   Today is our last free day together in Kathmandu, some of the group are due to leave to go treking in the mountains and some new people are due to join our group this evening, most of us decide to make the most of it, after another of our big breakfasts a large gro…

The temple Swayambunath, also named 'Monkey Temple' is on a hill 2km from Kathmandu.  The eyes of Buddha painted on all four sides of the stupa. Between 2 arcades sourcilières is the 3rd eye, a symbol of true wisdom. The nose, which is shaped like a question mark represents the figure o…

This is my last full day in Nepal. I’m worn out from all the traveling and am happy to take it easy and not really plan anything. I decide to do my final shopping of souvenirs. Earle is impressed with my negotiating skills.

6/24/07Well we made it through the night without any major bugs, barking dogs or other incidents and packed up ready to head back to Kathmandu after breakfast. At the restaurant, we met a couple of guys probably 50ish with their twelve year old sons who were on vacation. Yesterday, they had driven …

Namaste! After a long long flight (Amsterdam-Singapore Singapore-Kathmandu) we were picked up by the travel organization. Everything looked really professional and trustworthy! Yet we spend two days in Kathmandu. Asian "chaos"  the way I like it. Trafic (cars just drive where they want if the…