Nepal Day #8 – Day 2 of the Trek – Australian Base Camp
November 15, 2018We got our phone call at 6 am. It was cold but it was well worth it. The Himalayas. It was stunning. We stood there for ages & watched the sunrise. We could see Annapurna II & Fishtail (Machapuchare) The latter has never been climbed to its summit. We were told that lots attempted to…
Nepal Day #7 – Day 1 of the Trek – Dhampus
November 14, 2018Okay, so I have called this Day 1 of the trek but quite frankly that is a piss take. A lot of Nepal based holidays are Treks that can last from 1 to 3 weeks & that is all they do. We didn’t want this, we wanted to see a lot of Nepal but also…
Nepal Day #6 – Pokhara
November 13, 2018Today’s activity was a guided tour of Pokhara & it’s surroundings. We were met after breakfast by the guide & his driver. He was fucking awful. We did all the things in the area so that was good but he gave no insight or information at all He was shit. ….in fact, more annoyingly all…
Nepal Day #5 – Travel to Pokhara
November 12, 2018An early start to the bus station. A quick pop to the toilet led me to this delight straight out of a Nepalese ‘Trainspotting‘. This was about a 6-hour journey. Usual stuff, the guy ‘running’ the bus had about 3 mobile phones & kept counting seats all the time. We made numerous stop on the way…
Nepal Day #4 Chitwan
November 11, 20188 am start. Off to the elephant safari……..mmmmm, not really sure how we felt about this to be fair. The elephants seem absolutely fine but didn’t like the idea. The reality is that they have been using elephants for yrs & they seemed well cared for. There was 4 of us on a little platform…