And then the flight home. Having learnt from our first visit to Bangkok, we now knew to head out back of the airport once we arrived just in case...

Last day. Went over to Pratunam for some shopping, with T finally finding the silly little spiderman outfits that were requested by someone at wor...

It wasn’t a good sleep last night… our neighbours were having sex a little too loudly for my liking at around midnight. Had to have been loud�...

Early kick-off today because of the fitting, so we attacked breakfast and scurried across to the tailor to try our gear on. A quick chat and a fe...

A little more on the agenda today since we don’t head back to the tailor until tomorrow. Still… not much to write about really. Basically, we ...

Since we did a little research, we found out about this bird flu thing and decided that perhaps we’ll steer clear of the fowl in the markets. Oth...

Last day. Ang and Subas came to our hotel in the morning to say their goodbyes and gave us scarfs for safe-passage (or something related, I’ll ...

Yesterday afternoon I did a little shopping in Thamel; books, souvenirs, more fleeces… and medication. I found a chemist pretty easily and got a ...

The goodbyes… As could be expected, some of the porters seemed a bit distant. Language barriers, etc. not assisting friendships. But the ones tha...

Mixed emotions. T will get better after today. Not only is her back still bad, but she’s a little ill in the stomach as well. She even threw-up ...

How can such a beautiful morning turn so violently wrong in the afternoon? Easy… have lunch in Lespar (circa 2150m) and then schedule camp for ...

What a night! I awoke in so much pain. Midway through the night I discovered that my sleeping mat was planted firmly on the top of a baseball size...

That was hard… back in the tent, in the snow. We actually awoke to snowfall… and Sittaram giving us our cards back ;-) We actually thought tha...

Now, having said that everyone here is great… there’s always an exception. Just one exception to the rule. An Italian couple that arrived lat...

So here we are, first day of an extended stay. I’ve already mentioned that the surrounds couldn’t have been any better, and it’s true. On top...

The day of separation. We had a late start from Swanta since we were effectively heading downhill along the same trail we came up yesterday, crossi...

Had the same situation with the frozen tent and poor sleep, oh well. In any case, this was perhaps my favourite ‘trekking’ day of the trip. We...

To say we went up like 500m today, it didn’t feel like it. It was kinda pleasurable for all involved. Maybe the snow had revived us all… That w...

In all honesty, I awoke this morning hoping that T would give it the thumbs down for a continuation. Not because I wanted to leave… but because I...

What can I say? Words can’t express… we’re woken by the smooth tones of Sittaram as usual “Helloooo…. Washing waterssss” I unzip the...

Now this was fun, and everybody had a great day… Eric might have been a little less excited than the rest of us, as he seems to already have a st...

A short bus ride from Pokhara (820m) to Phedi (130m) and we’re away. May I ask though… why are there so many steps? Big, stone steps, meander...

Bus day. What more can I say? Ang met us pretty early on at the Radisson and ushered us with our gear into lovely lucky bus that would be our c...

An early start today - taking in a city tour. We joined up with the Everest Base Camp group and headed off to check out a couple of temples. Bodn...

So, we check-out and make it to the airport at 8am for a 10:30am flight. Obviously no need for such an early arrival as we are straight through t...

So we’re away again. After a small delay in Perth, and a chat to an overly talkative Thai-cross-Malay woman, we have a relatively normal 7 hour...