We were met at our hotel early in the morning buy our charismatic guide Govinda Timalsina and our gentleman porter Niraj Pokhrel and we proceeded to board a bus with several other eager trekkers to Bhulbule in the Annapurna National Reserve. A very scenic but incredibly bumpy ride in a local bus were where we were joined by ever changing locals, fresh produce, mattresses and every other conceivable cargo you could imagine led us to our first stop and the be...

We boarded a sleeper train to Gorakhpur at 11:20pm quickly found our cabin, made friends with our fellow Indian travellers and set to sleep. We awoke to a broken down train 15km from our destination. Conversations with our new friends led to us jumping the tracks an hour later and stowing ourselves on the next train going our way. Having arrived in Gorakhpur 3 hours late we jumped in a £10 taxi 230km to the Nepalese border. We arrived in good time and found our...