Leaving Bhujung for the last time (at least for a few years), we have just had one of the most bizarre, enjoyable and sentimental weeks of our lives. A festival of local foods and cultural dance and a very official district sports tournament, followed by the most unbelievable send-off ceremony we could have imagined made us feel very at home and wishing to go back as soon as possible. We returned from Pokhara with our shmick new photos for the Bhujung Gurung mus...

Although the weather was starting to warm up a bit in Bhujung, we were desperately craving a no-thermals day and some warmer weather in Pokhara, which sits at a much lower altitude. We had no such luck, as we spent our first day rugged up in our hotel bed, sheltering from a heavy rainstorm. Admittedly we were kind of happy to use this as an excuse to spend the whole day indoors, chatting to family and checking emails after a month with no contact to the outside w...

After a year on the road, you would think we'd be used to it, but shortly after arriving in this beautiful little village, we found ourselves once again struck by a good dose of culture shock. Two new and distinctly different social systems and languages, coupled with a remote and very basic way of life definitely caught us a little by surprise, although we were soon inspired to help by the humility, unprecedented generosity and endlessly positive nature of the l...

We arrived in Pokhara with a determination to start volunteering somewhere as quickly as possible, although it was difficult to resist all the gourmet restaurants, tourist delights and adrenaline sports on offer. This was made easier with Jess spending most of her time running between the sink and the toilet, unwillingly preparing her stomach for the more remote villages we are heading towards now... Nevertheless, it was impossible not to notice the shear beauty...

Despite the five hour delay at Delhi Airport, we arrived in Kathmandu at a reasonable hour in the afternoon. By this point we were in desperate need of a comfy bed, and managed to haggle ourselves a taxi to a popular guesthouse in the tourist district, Thamel. We had barely untied our shoelaces before passing out for a couple of hours... After some rest we found a restaurant serving traditional Nepali food, with a variety of cultural dance demonstrations to ente...