We spent our last 2 days in Kathmandu meeting up with friends before we left for beijing on Sunday. We did some last minute shopping and sent home a parcel (which was really expensive) On saturady evening we went to Paddy Foleys Irish pub (again!) for the FA Cup Final. It was packed with bloody united fans, only about 4 Chelsea Still I hung my blue flag and clapped and cheered on my beloved blues, much to the annoyance of the reds! And when we scored, holy crap, ...

Pokhara is a very small quiet town situated on a huge lake. There isn't much to do unless your a keen trekker so Chelsea, being a lazy arse, found it a little boring! We found most people were there afetr finishing a trek or just starting one. The weather was pretty crap, rain rain and more rain so we didn't even hire bikes to explore around the other side of the lake. We di dhowever hire a pedalo and went out on the lake for an hour on a rare sunny afternoon ...

This morning we met at 6 for a 3hour bus journey (on the worlds most pot-holed and stone covered dirt track!) to The Last Resort which is on a ridge right above the Bhote Kosi River. To reach the resort you must walk across a 160m suspension bridge which is used for bungee jumps! It looked absolutely terrifying, our legs went to jelly just walking over it! We stayed in 2man deluxe safari tents which were really comfy and the low level seating bar and the restaura...

Today we made our 5 hour private bus journey to Kathmandu. First impressions were that everything is close together but not as hectic as some cities in India. We arrived at Hotel Harati and some of the group opted for a tour of some local towns. As we have 2 weeks to explore the area myself, Bradley, Jo and Pete took a walk around the nearby Durbar Square where we bargained in the market (Jo is the best for this!) had some lunch and just got our bearings of the a...

We had an early breakfast then took a short walk down to the river. The group slpit into 2 groups (Chelsea, Brad, Zach, Vicki, maddie and our leader Praveen) and took an hour or so sailing down the river in a tiny canoe. We also toppled out several times! We spotted a few crocsodiles and birds before we reached the jungle. We walked roughly 15KM throughtout the day, most of which was in 3M high grass (Chelsea has the cuts to prove it!) Our group was by far the lu...