Tag: nepal

We left Kathmandu by bus and went to Pokhara where we spent almost a week. Had some nice time there, cycling, walking, relaxing … enjoying the view of the Anapurna mountains, great view from the lake when the weather is clear. We had a big storm one night, which messed up our plans for the next day as we had planned on getting up early and reaching Sarangkot before the sun rise .. but the rain over the night decided otherwise.

However, after almost a week there, we decided to leave for a few (3) days rafting on the Kali Gandaki river, which has class 3 and 4 rapids, pretty fun. So in the evening we were sleeping out in tents on the river side, fire camps, nice food, beautiful clear nights, could see loads of stars up in the sky, we had quite a nice time. When the rafting was over, instead of returning to Pokhara with the rest of the rafting group, we went down to Tansen, or up i should say, its a nice small town on top of a hill, where we just wanted to spend a day to get over the rafting, in peace, the streets are too narrow for cars and trucks to go through :) Unfortunately the area is under military survey, with all the terrorist going around, so the city shuts down at 9pm, quite wierd. Not even mentionning all the military controls we are getting on the roads.

We are now in the Terai, in Sauraha exactly, going to visit some of the national park tomorrow, and hopefully see some of the wildlife there :)

We should be heading back towards Kathmandu valley in a couple days, so we can get a few more nice walks done in that area.

More news and some photos then, the internet is pretty slow over the country.

Tony.

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We spent a few days in Calcutta, visited a few temples and gardens. There is a small part of the town filled with sculpters, people making all the statues tourists will be buying everywhere, its a very small area, will very narrow streets, if we can call them streets, rather small paths to get around all the working areas, and houses. Its a very poor part of the city, which is actually the most civilized city we have seen in India so far, well depends on the side of the city you are in of course, but there is really a big difference with the other cities. Its a very modern city (in some areas). The city still has loads of building left from the time the english were around, such as churches …
quite interesting to see them here.

The temples in the city are however really odd and small compared to those we have seen so far, but the inside our very nice, and the gardens are nicely kept up with.

We left India and went towards Nepal. We have spent a couple days here in Kathmando. This is really a nice place, not much to see in the city itself, but we will visit the valley before leaving the country. The few temples that are in the city are … small, and unfortunately not visiteable (or at least not when we were there). Life in the city is a lot nicer than in India, people are way nicer, less noisy … We have also finally been able to get out a bit at night, and get a few drinks down, India is just not a place for alcohol, we did however manage to get our hands on some indian whiskey, a bit rough i must say, but when theres no choice! At least Kathmandu has bars and live music going around in the evening, a nicer place for youngsters and old hippies. It was a nice change after the 2 weeks we have spent in India, we were able to relax a bit before going back on the road, heading towards Pokhara tomorrow, a few (7) hours of bus are waiting for us, fun fun :)

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