<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This morning a bus had been organised to take us from Thamel to where the truck was parked. This was easier said than done as there was a riot happening on the road out of town and we weren't allowed through that way. Another way we went was also blocked, but the police let us drive through anyway past the burning tires and stuff. It wasn't a very good riot anyway, mostly just a bunch of ...

5 nights in Kathmandu <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> We said a sad farewell to Steve O as we left Pokhara, as he's off doing a trek for a week or so before he heads back to Canada. The road to Kathmandu was mostly back the way we had come from Chitwan, at least halfway down the windy valleys and then up a lot more windy valleys with rushing rivers and terraced rice paddies and corn growing on the flat parts. As we got cl...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> The bus from Chitwan to Pokhara was pretty cozy - Shane barely fit in the seats, but it only cost 400 rp each. At first we could spread out a bit, but as we stopped at a few towns the bus filled up. There were two guys hanging out the door and trying to get every person on the side of the road to come to Pokhara. We headed into some steep valleys with a rushing river at the bottom, and cl...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Nepal greeted us with the arrival of the monsoon. After a hot and sticky night during which it rained, it again started to rain after we had started driving, and didn't let up until late afternoon.. We couldn't believe how drastic the change was just crossing the border - one moment we had been in flat floodplains and dry fields with a few trees, and now just a few km up the road we were ...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> A very long day today. We were up, had breakfast and were on the road at 7am, and even then it was hot and steamy as we drove out of Varanasi. It had rained during the night, so the drive today was pretty disgusting for the first part of the day. As we drove north it got a little bit cooler. We stopped for lunch in the usual type of small town and had the usual samosas for lunch (although...