29 December 2008
We met everyone at breakfast to say goodbye to Russell, before SB and I packed up and headed next door to book our trip to Tibet and getsome information on Chitwan.
We then booked into Hotel Himal Ganesh and headed to the bank to get money to pay for Tibet to find we needed [ more... ]
28 December 2008
We waved Miranda off after brekkie and I wasn’t feeling too flash so sat in the garden before heading to bed for the rest of the day.
Meanwhile SB headed out and got some info on Tibet and then went to the Monkey Temple and Boednath with Russell and Emily.
We all had dinner at [ more... ]
27 December 2008
An early start to Kathmandu. We were waved off by those staying behind and started our 6 hour bus ride. The road was extremely bumpy and we took on some locals to fill the few empty seats on our bus.
We stopped a couple of times along the road for breakfast and lunch. I [ more... ]
26 December 2008
Our last day trekking.
We got up early and had breakfast and then headed off on our last trek to the bus. Everyone was a tad sore after yesterday’s trek downhill. We wandered slowly to the bus station and boarded the bus for Pokhara.
the bus ride was uneventful and took about an hour. We [ more... ]
25 December 2008
The morning was cloudy so we didn’t get the 5am wake-up call we were expecting and by the time the clouds cleared SB and I couldn’t be bothered trekking up another 500m to see Annapurna 2, which we have seen heaps already and it was so cosy and warm in the bed. We [ more... ]
24 December 2008
An early start in the dawn light meant a constant uphill walk. We had our first break at the top of the steep climb with the weather heating up. After about 4 hours we had a lunch stop which ended all too soon before yup, you guessed it even more uphill at an [ more... ]
23 December 2008
After an excellent quiet and restful night we awoke to the magnificent scenery around the hotel and had a lovely breakfast in the warm dining room. We set off, full of food and enthusiasm for the longest day on the road of the trek. We walked through mountain valleys; crossed streams, passed through [ more... ]
22 December 2008
Nearly everyone awoke feeling refreshed despite the previous nights celebration. Steve A had picked up a tummy-bug was wasn’t feeling too flash.
After breakfast we headed off through the village and down onto the flood plains along the muddy river. The morning was clear and crisp affording all brilliant views of the mountains and [ more... ]
21 December 2008
TH woke up in the middle of the night (again) while S slept through (as usual). We had our morning wake up call to signal the start of yet another trekking day.
We had our breakfast after singing happy birthday to Emily B and then set off through another moonscape scene.
We left town by [ more... ]
20 December 2008
There was an early morning knock for those that wanted to visit the monastery, SB went and I took the opportunity to hve a lie in. Callie and Steve also left the trek to head to the Annapurna Sanctury.
The monastery had a lot of taps that if you ran your head under it [ more... ]