Nepal - Thailand We arrived at Kathmandu Airport in good time and after being pointed in the right direction we took our place in the queue, avoiding eye contact with the man holding a gun who was obviously security not just some random individual brandishing an automatic weapon and managing not to get irritated by the Indian man who had left the queue, bags and all to get a coffee only to return ten minutes later and demand that he was in front of us and not ...

THE TERAI RANGE - CHITWAN NATIONAL PARK

HIMALAYA TREK - ANNAPURNA BASE CAMP Well here goes the day of reckoning has finally arrived, we are actually going to climb and walk the Himalaya's for christmas. We packed our tiny day packs with thin but warm layers of clothes and toiletry essentials (hotel freebie carbolic soap and deodorant), tied our sleeping bags tightly onto the side and bulked up with our warm fleece's, hoodies and coats and we were ready. We had booked a taxi to take us from Pokhara to...

POKHARA Pop 200,000 We left the hotel for the Tourist bus to Pokhara in the dark as the national grid had been turned off for load shedding and walked the few hundred yards to the bus stop with a bit less weight than usual strapped to our backs due to the parcel being sent from India. There waiting for us were the few hawkers with coffee, bakery goods, biscuits, chocolate and bottles of water in large wicker baskets. This is such a far cry from Indian hawkers ...

KATHMANDU Pop 949,486