So its time for my last breakfast at the Vaishali hotel in Kathmandu, I am all packed and ready to go. Achut comes to see me off and provides a driver to take me to the airport. I quickly get to the check-in area, I hand over my passport and the information about my ticket … More To Beijing (sadly not!)
Well invigorated by yesterdays hike I get up and work my way through the exercises my personal trainer gave me before I left. I’ve not had much chance to do them so far, probably only done this a few times but they are really good and when I am done I feel great. After breakfast … More Pokhara to Kathmandu
5am and we are out and heading up to watch the sunrise at Sangrakot, which should give us a great view of the Annapurna range. Sadly not today, its misty, cloudy and not great visibility so we don’t even see the sun. We all just stand around freezing waiting patiently, to be honest its a … More Pokhara, from sunrise to hiking and boating
So its time to leave Tibet, we head to the airport to get our flight back to Kathmandu. It starts as always with delays, this time customs delay as this usually only opens at 10am, but today apparently the person we need is not in yet and so we don’t get through till 10.30am. Flight … More On the road to Pokhara
Well, we leave Bhutan sadly at 7.45am, another sunny day and we land in Kathmandu just around 9am and start the drive to our hotel. Its certainly back to earth with a bump as we see a car incident in front of us and the door hanging off someone’s van, but everyone just keeps moving! … More Kathmandu Part 2
So, thankfully I am somewhat over my nepali belly!! and up and ready to visit Bhutan, everyone I have met so far says this is the part of the trip that is the best so I have high hopes. We get an early start for the airport after a light breakfast for me (toast!)! I … More Bhutan… well almost
Hotel Vaishali is pretty good, clean, there is a hard to describe smell in the bathroom which I assume is a mixture of the cleaning products and plumbing/water, the beds are what you would call ‘solid’ which I quickly found out when I sat down! I met with Achut the owner of the tour company … More Kathmandu
