Sunday morning from Chitwan we took the local bus to Pokhara, where we will be settled for a couple of weeks. We passed the marijuan* fields and the elephant dung paper shop (should have written my resignation letter on that!). The bus was cheaper than the 'tourist' one with better suspension, a willingness to pile as many on as possible and the same problems with the radiator. When the bus broke down they filled it with over 10 litres of water before we were on ...

Well, we got up 6am and fast breakfast then off to the luxury tourist bus, well almost luxury. It was a 5-6hr drive 160km to Chitwan National Park (CNP). The old TATA bus crept through the misty roads of Kathmandu and out to the foggy uplands. We crept slowly with fine Nepalese driving. We rose to over 1200m and contimued through small hamlets and truck stops following valley walls . It was cool at first but warmed up as we rose out of the fog. We saw the terrace...

Namaste to you all, this is the Nepalese greeting - also used in India it means "the divinity in me bows to the divinity in you" Thanks for the messages, lots of them too, it's great to hear from back home. In answer to the question that has been puzzling some of you, we are lucky enough to have a south facing balcony and so we washed our smalls before bedtime and they were dry by morning. Oh the degradation! I did also buy a couple of emergency tops. O...

#I've had the same jeans on for four days now...#. Four days into our travels and we finally got our cases. The British Airways website had said the cases had been delivered and the file was closed. What that meant was that the cases had been delivered to Delhi, not Kathmandu. We tried the telephone numbers that they provided us with but they did not exist. We then found another number off the internet and that number said press one for UK flights; for all other ...

Well we set off from Home courtesy of Gail to MCR airport - then after a relax in the BA lounge took the shuttle to LHR. After some issues we got the New Delhi flight (albeit in emergency seats!) Quick 8hr flight and then attempted to navigate transit at New Delhi when they identified BA had not sent our luggage... We continued on the 1hr 20m Indigo flight from Delhi to Kathmandu - n a brand new plane - and saw Everest from the plane, awesome. We landed and raced...