18th April Another early start for my overland trip to Lhasa. Once again things don't go according to plan. The bus we are booked to travel on cannot get to our hotel to pick us up as the road is too narrow, so we have to walk to it. It's about a 30min walk. We would have to carry our backpack and day pack. My backpack was 12.8kg and day pack 5kg. Ann, the lady I booked through said that was too far for us. Ann then wacked all three backpacks onto a rickshaw and...

18th Apr After one and a half days rest after Everest I am on the move again. This time I am off to Chitwan which is a national park. This will take us about 5 to 6 hours drive in an old mini bus with no air conditioning, very hard seats and not much room. The roads out of Kathmandu are mad. The scenery once again is breathtaking and also a bit frightening. Kathmandu is a lot higher than Chitwan which means we have to make it to the bottom of the valley in one ...

30th March Have now met my group, they are all from New Zealand. Everyone seems to be nice, so it looks like I could have another good trip, but a different one. 1st April Today we fly to Lukla. As you come into land all you can see in front of you is a mountain and a very short runway. We have to walk for about 3 hrs today to get to our first tea house for the night. The scenery is breathtaking. We arrive in time for tea. Afterwards everyone sits around the s...

28th March Today we have another long drive to KATHMANDU. At breakfast we heard that the curfew is still on.Some how our group leader (Beball) thats his name got tickets for all of us to fly to Kathmandu. But with no transport on the road we have to start walking.We have 2 rickshaws with all the bags.Off we go walking down the deserted streets. Once again our leader comes up with more rickshaws ,good job as the airport is about 5miles away.We finally took off 2...

25th March High light of trip. The sleeper train was brill. There were 3 bunks each side I had the top one.I slept most of the way. Tonight we had our sight of the Ganges. Arrived at the river at sunset. What a sight that was. We took a boat down the river to watch the religious rituals. 26th March Early start today to see the sunrise over the Ganges. The sight that greeted us was amazing. Pilgrims cleansing themselves in the holy river. Some just pouring wate...