Nepal only has one city, which I have now left in favour of its largest town, Pokhara (pronounced Pokar-ah). The air is much clearer here, it has a tourist area called Lakeside (which is for the obvious reason) and I have had my first sight of the Himalayas. This is a much nicer place to relax before the big trek. Many buses that left Kathmandu early in the morning headed out to the Privthi Highway, the only road to Pokhara. They were joined by multi-coloured tr...

Namaste (greetings) from Kathmandu! I arrived two days ago after first arguing with the staff at Heathrow who thought they couldn't take me because I didn't have a return ticket - "Look I have an Indian visa, so I don't intend to stay in Nepal indefinitely, and anyway why did you sell me a one-way ticket if you weren't going to let me use it?" They gave in, and I had no hassle at all actually entering Nepal apart from all the form filling and submitting a countle...