BHUTAN - This section title has vanished, so the rest of everything will be here unless the title & picture reappear. I don't know how to put this, but happily only 20,000 of us tourists are allowed in each year. We fly out of Nepal having been woken at 5am to catch the 9 am flight. We hang around the airport, having discarded most of the stodgy buns & bruised apples for what seems like a lot more than 3 hours. There are eight of us, including so...

26 May Well, China has suddenly appeared, so will continue here. But where has Bhutan got to? I arrived in Beijing & it was really good to escape the noise, chaos, dirt & crowds of Kathmandu. This sounds ungrateful, but it was wearing and after a day I managed to change my head, get out and start, if not quite enjoying it, then at least to stop sulking ! Taxi to the hotel, then out for getting bearigs. Contrary to my expectations, Beijing didn't ...