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The alarm went off well before 6 am. We got up. Opened the curtains. We were greeted with… ….fuck all! Just fog, smog or mist – you can never tell. It was effectively a ‘white-out’. Yep, we had added another day, night, travel and hotel onto our trip, to see sweet FA. Himalaya’s my arse!…
Well, this was a long but very good day. After breakfast, we were met by our guide for another tour of a different part of Kathmandu – Bhaktapur What a pleasure this was. His English was excellent & he was very interesting. We saw many temples and historic buildings. This area was famous for having…
The morning view of the Himalayas was another blinder. Better than the 1st day I would say. This was the last part of our ‘Trek’ & was potentially even shorter than the already ‘joke’ short treks up to now. Needless to say, we had a late start to try & eek it all out a…
We 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…
Okay, 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…
Today’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…
An 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…
8 am the start. Off to the elephant safari……..mmmmm, not 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…
After battling with Access Nepal we were picked up by a taxi to go to ‘bus station’…aka a line of buses for about a mile on the road!! Also discovered that the time on the bus ticket is bollocks. Always 30mins later than stated….& we arrived early!! We had our breakfast box! Weird sandwich, 2…
City tour of Kathmandu – 8.45am. Us & 3 others. Saw the sights of Kathmandu. Pretty impressive. [videopress oHjQCprJ] Kumari was the ‘eye opener’ – 10 girls for Buddist families that fit loads of different criteria – beauty, hair colour, the shade of skin, eye colour etc Then they scare the shit out of them…
Two days before the trip we discovered something weird with our flights – they weren’t confirmed. Eventually we rang them to find out what was going on & they very calmy said that the flight out we booked had been cancelled! WTF!! Just as calmly they then said another had been put on if we…
