Hello folks,
I know its been some time since i’ve posted any news, but its been kind of a problem finding internet access, and also, we havent been all so well lately, but we are getting a lot better now, joys of travelling :)
So last news said we were in Sauraha, seems like that was ages ago, had a nice time in the national park there, saw some crocos, rhinos, loads of nice colored birds, missed out on the tigers and bears though hehe, can’t have them all i guess. We also managed to spend a nice time for Stephs birthday there.
We then left for Kathmandu, and what should have been a 5 hours bus ride turned out to be at least 12 or 13 hours, gotta love check points, and miles of traffic jams in the mountains, but we managed it, waited, at least you can’t starve on the road, there is always people around selling food and drinks. We then spent 6 days in Kathmandu and its valley, especially the valley, visiting, lots of walking, lots of nice things to see, we spent that week with another 2 french guys who were starting their trip, and were going for a 20 days trekking the following week (can’t remember the names of the places we went now, but i’ll look them up at some point). So we spend a few days and evening the 5 of us, been nice to drink again :)
We were then thinking of going to Sri Lanka, but 2 things slowed us down, the first one was all the warnings we had been getting from friends and family about what had been going on the last few days over there, and the second was the price for the plane tickets, so we decided to simply go back down to Calcuta, and decide what we’ll do there. So we did, and after checking a few information sites and all we decided to go south, along the east coast of India, towards Chennai (Madras) and Pondicheri. However the train for Chennai is a 27 hour trip, so that was a BIG no-no in 1 go for us :) So we only took the train for 7 hours or so, down to Bubaneshwar (will have to check spelling). This is were i started to feel sick, so i didn’t see much of it, except for some caves with lots of monkeys hanging around, and the hotel room :)
I guess leaving Nepal and back to India was harder on the stomach that i thought (and it took me a few days to get over it, actually i’m just starting to feel better, a week later). So, we spent a couple days in that place then finally got on the tracks for a good 24 hours of train to Chennai. By that point none of us were feeling very good, so we didnt do much, and just basically hanged around, booked our plain tickets for Sri Lanka, and went off to Pondicheri by bus, and spent another 3 days or so there. There is definately good french cooking over there, but not that much else, temples and churches are … surprisingly colorful, beaches saddely poluted. But we ate good, and got our strength back now it seems as we just arrived back from Pondicheri earlier today.
So, tomorrow morning, gonna get up early, head to the airport, and fly to Colombo.
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