Again very sorry it's been a long time since I've updated my blog... All you eager readers are wondering where I have been and what I've been upto! I left you with the flight from Kathmandu to Bangkok... I was welcomed to Bangkok without three hundred pounds worth of travelers cheques having noticed my pack had been tampered with (but they didn't steal all of my TC...!?!) Spending an hour of my busy schedule of doing nothing waiting at the airport to solve a...

I was welcomed into Kathmandu by exhaust fumes and eager taxi drivers willing to take me for double their usual fare. With the help of a local on the bus and a shared taxi ride later, I was taken to the backpacker hub of Thamel. That evening the streets of Thamel were alive, the atmosphere electric. The live bands playing from the bars, the hustle and bustle of street sellers, the cycle rickshaws touting for business and motorbikes whizzing past, was different to...

An early morning arrival in Kolkata, a repaid taxi journey to the backpacker area, being declined at every hotel because I looked Indian, two lovely cups of chai and numerous requests from a rickshaw puller to take me to see the sights later, I managed to check into a dormitory! My attempt at speaking Hindi was back in action! My time in Kolkata gave me the opportunity to get in contact with NGO’s (Non Government Organisation) in Nepal and arrange for my Nepa...

An early morning arrival in Kolkata, a repaid taxi journey to the backpacker area, being declined at every hotel because I looked Indian, two lovely cups of chai and numerous requests from a rickshaw puller to take me to see the sights later, I managed to check into a dormitory! My attempt at speaking Hindi was back in action! My time in Kolkata gave me the opportunity to get in contact with NGO’s (Non Government Organisation) in Nepal and arrange for my Nepa...

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