We are super chilled, brown around the edges and slimmer already after a week's relaxation at Kovalam. Kovalam in March is entering low-season and is not so busy with tourists. I have been running (6am is the only time cool enough) and swimming. Paul has been eating himself slim. Our wonderful Lonely Planet restaurant has provided the vegetarian diet - Veg. Kadai (mixed veg and cashew nut curry), vegetable sizzlers (spicy rissole, tomato based vegetable curry ser...

Our final day in Nepal and up at 6am to see the sunrise over the Himalayas for the last time. Breakfast, pack then domestics done we dragged and carried our bags the 1km or so up and down hill to the Tourist bus park. The bus left 10:15 and snaked down the warm sunlit narrow lane through Nagarkot and outlying villages and onward into the Bhaktapur Valley. The valley is littered with chimney after chimney of Brick making factories all pumping out smoke day-in day-...