Nepal 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…

Exchanged rooms at Kathmandu Guest House for my final day in Kathmandu and Nepal.  Spent part of the morning repacking my gear for the next leg of my journey.  Going through everything I tried to determine what could be left behind, tossed, cleaned up before heading to Hong Kong. Later i…

  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…

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…

Trekking in the Annapurna region and teaching English in a mountain village near Pokhara were my main goals while travelling through Nepal in March/April of this year - I heart Nepal!! :)

There is something majical about getting lost in the mountains, whether they are the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayan Mountains or any range that might be in your backyard.  And by saying 'getting lost', I don't mean not knowing where you are.  'Gett'in Lost' in them as leaving ev…

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…

As it had done for the whole of my trip, the morning dawned clear, bright and calm, but there was no screwing around this morning. Within 30 metres of the put-in at the resort edge we were straight into the first rapid, and they kept on coming after that. The water was freezing as it hit you, but …

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 departing on a small plane from Kathmandu to Lukla we started our 18 day hike to Mount Everest Basecamp via the Gokyo Lakes. Every day about 8 hours walking mostly uphill. And the scenery was amazing!!. After 13 days you arrive at the Basecamp of Mount Everest. What a place to be. It is s…

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…

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…

This is our last day in Kathmandu and finally time to do some sights of the city.  There are 3 temples that look worth a visit and 2 are relatively close to each other so this looks to be the best bet.  We navigate a local bus to the the Boudhanath temple on the NE edge of the city.&…