Trip: South Asia
There are [55] stories from my trip: South Asia
NEPAL | Tuesday, 3 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
Langtang Trek
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NEPAL | Thursday, 21 Jun 2007 | Views [3288]
The Garden of Dreams is a walled-off garden in Tridevi Marg at the entrance to the Thamel area in Kathmandu. It costs 160NRs for foreigners to get in ($A3), but it is well worth it if you take a book or the newspaper and spend an afternoon relaxing. The ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
NEPAL | Thursday, 21 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
Garden of Dreams, Thamel, Kathmandu
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NEPAL | Tuesday, 19 Jun 2007 | Views [1631] | Comments [2]
Kathmandu - a city of contrasts. From the crowded, oldworldly, potholed alleyways of Thamel to the wide heavily trafficked roads and glass fronted shopping malls of the newer city, from the over 300 year old architecture of temples, lion statues and ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Saturday, 16 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
Patan (Lalitpur), Kathmandu Valley
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NEPAL | Friday, 15 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
Durbar square, Kathmandu
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NEPAL | Tuesday, 12 Jun 2007 | Views [947]
The next days were spent slacking around Pokhara. Visited the Mountaineering Museum (very modern and worth the time), Green Pastures Leprosy Hospital (lots of great work being done in facilities that are nothing like Alice Springs Hospital) and untold ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
NEPAL | Saturday, 9 Jun 2007 | Views [1090] | Comments [1]
1) You enter the toilet, there is an Asian and a Western toilet and you choose the Asian (squat) toilet. 2) You order chiya (Nepali tea) or chai (Indian tea) and want to add more sugar. 3) You know it is 11 Nepali Rupiah on the local bus from Lakeside ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
NEPAL | Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Views [2416]
Tuesday we woke up to rain, rain, rain. Raj (our trusty AC guide) had booked us up for 9am to go to the Bat Cave and Mahendra Cave just north of Pokhara. The rain backed off at 10am and Raj turned up (we thought he had given up on the day like us). Being ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
NEPAL | Monday, 4 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
Prepare to be bored
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NEPAL | Monday, 4 Jun 2007 | Views [1227] | Comments [2]
Sorry folks about the boring photo but since pictures speak a thousand words this could be our journal entry. We took 20 days to complete the circuit with the aid of our energetic, singing, guide and porter, Raj. Raj carried Jenny's pack, Phil carried ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
NEPAL | Monday, 14 May 2007 | Views [1210] | Comments [1]
Jenny wanted a day out of Pokhara, so I reluctantly agreed to hire some mountainbikes and go out for the day:-) At the Sarangkot turn-off some locals thought we must be going the wrong way - they let us know that takng a bicycle to Sarangkot was crazy.... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
NEPAL | Sunday, 13 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
Pokhara
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NEPAL | Sunday, 13 May 2007 | Views [886]
Pokhara is such a clean place (the whole of Nepal is clean compared to India). We went to visit the International Nepal Fellowship (INF) office in Bagar, Pokhara. On Saturday wnt to the Ram Ghat Church - a few hundred people (maybe more people than at ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
NEPAL | Thursday, 10 May 2007 | Views [4153] | Comments [9]
After Bardia Adventure Resort, we were taken to the Mahendra Highway to catch a bus to Pokhara via Kohanpur, Butwal and Tansen. This is supposed to be a 16 hour journey. The bus was already over an hour late due to a banda further west on the highway.... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
NEPAL | Wednesday, 9 May 2007 | Views [1051] | Comments [2]
Doesn't that sound romantic? Our accomodation for the next three nights was the Bardia Adventure resort, staying in mud wall and thatched roof huts around a large central dining area cum meeting place also with mud walls and high thatched roof and a ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
NEPAL | Tuesday, 8 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
Bardia National Park
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NEPAL | Sunday, 6 May 2007 | Views [1257]
Nepalgunj was a real respite from India. The streets are wide with no stalls blocking the footpath. We could walk down the markets and no one would hassle us to buy or 'just look, no obligation to buy'. There was a big UN office before actually entering ... Read more >
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NEPAL | Wednesday, 2 May 2007 | Views [10132] | Comments [5]
On Tuesday morning we set out for Nepalgunj from Lucknow. On Monday we did some research and found out which Lucknow bus station had the bus for Baraich, a big town along the way. On Tuesday we were woken early by an unwanted 5am wake-up call from the ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
INDIA | Tuesday, 1 May 2007 | Views [3582] | Comments [2]
On Monday night it was off to Lucknow on the overnight train again in 3AC class - this is all too easy! Got off at 7am Tuesday to find the usual thousands of eager auto-rickshaw drivers wanting to take us to their favourite hotel (where they get commission).... Read more >
Tags: Culture
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