Nepal doesn’t have the best road safety record. Seemingly every day the Kathmandu Post runs stories of ‘xx dead in bus ravine plunge.’ The terrain doesn’t help. Nor do the vehicles, the majority of which appear to pre-date the Model…
Back on bikes: Pokhara to Kathmandu
Trek over, all that remained was to retrieve our bikes from Pokhara, cycle them to Kathmandu, and fly home.Travelling the main Pokhara-Kathmandu highway by bus hadn’t been much fun. Cycling it looked like our idea of hell. Buses and trucks…
East Nepal – The end
Please click to see our East Nepal photoset on Flickr. Stats: Lukla to Chiya Bhanjyang Days – 19 Trekking days – 15 Distance – 258km Trekking time – 86hrs Amount climbed -16,450m Passes…
Empty Everest
‘How odd that there are no tourists here’, I said to Harriet for the fiftieth time. As she’d wandered round Namche looking for a room I’d lazed on some steps in the main street. Half an hour had passed and still…
Kathmandu Recommendations
Nowadays we don’t travel with country guidebooks, preferring to just use maps and trekking guides. So when we come to larger cities and towns it normally takes us a few days of trial and error and asking for recommendations to…