Hi everyone, We\'ve had an action packed time since the last postcard. There were national strikes on in Nepalese schools last Monday so we took the opportunity to go on a half day trip to Bhaktapur, a much less commercialised town vs Kathmandu. We had lunch opposite what is supposed to be the most perfectly proportioned pagoda in the world! Looked alright to us. We were also overlooking the square and fifty men trying to dismantle a huge medieval ca...

Hi everyone, sorry it's taken such a long time to provide you with a second riveting installment of life here in 'KTM', for those that are pretentious. So, a couple of weekends ago we went on a white water rafting trip on the Bhote Kosi river. There were about 12 of us, two rafts worth and we camped at the riverside. The rafting was great fun, we'd definitely like to do it again. We slept under a raft with a piece of tarpaulin over the top and used our su...