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Pokhara and exit Nepal
26-05-2010
13:07:09
Nepal
The last week of Nepal wasn't the best week of Nepal. As I mentioned before, there where strikes going on so there was no possibility of going somewhere or doing something. You could rent a bycile but the prices where way to high. All the tourist where renting them so prices went up up up. You couldn't rent a motorbike or scooter, no taxi's and no busses to Kathmandu. With some effort you could manage to get breakfast or a sandwich, but most of the day you do nothing. We where able to rent a boat to peddle on the leak, but that was no fun with 5 of us in a small boat. We are Gavin and Sunmi, Marty and Sarah and Me.
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Annapurna Circuit Part III
24-05-2010
10:17:59
Nepal
The last part of the trek, the most relaxing part and a bit of a beer trek. After Muktinath I walked every day with Sarah and Marty whom I met one the second day of the trek. They are an Australian couple and I travelled all the way to Kuala Lumpur with them. Gavin and Sunmi a USA / South Korean couple with whom we had great fun and stayed with till the strik in Pokhara. More about that in a bit. And Mike whom is a beautifull person with a golden hart and has a facination with ants.
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Annapurna Circuit Part II
23-05-2010
17:14:59
Nepal
The second part of my trek will bring you till the pass. Up to a hight of 5000+ meters and with some awesome views of one of the roof tops of the world.
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Annapurna Circuit Part I
08-05-2010
04:35:54
Nepal
After 17 days of walking, 211km, up to a hight of 5300 meter (one of the highest passes in the world), 1000 photo's and all this on 25 dollar boots. I completed the full Annapurna Circuit. From Besishar to Nayapul via Poonhill. It was one of the hardest things I ever done in my life. Hard in the way of fiscal labor and hard as a mental challenge to walk a bit more at the end of a day. This is the first part in my report of the trip. Day 1 to 6 the first week. Pretty easy I can judge now, but it felt hard when I was walking. From Besishar to Manang where I had my 3000 meter acclimatisation day.
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Pokhara, Happy New Year 2067
14-04-2010
16:43:42
Nepal
Arriving in Pokhara was as arriving in every tourist city in Azia. Touts, touts, taxi drivers, touts and a lot of "No thank you", "What don't you get of the word NO", "F- off", "Leave me alone". It's always nice to arrive somewhere else. Walked to the first Hotel we could find together with Tom my fellow Dutchman and Brabander (a part of the south of Holland). Nice room, good price with breakfast, TV and Bath. We found out that where pretty far from the city center, what is a good thing if you want peace and quite but sucks to walk every day 30 minutes to a nice bar.
I meet up with the German girls I meet before in India, Milena en Lara. Cool to see them again and instant fun with word jokes when Milena speaks English. We rented a motorbike and scooter and went up a dirt road to a small river. The motorbike was a lot more comfor-table then the scooter. They both got nice nicknames... The motorbike became "the Beast" and the scooter became "Daisy". both strong, but Dasiy got extra applause for holding it together on the rocky, dusty road. She even did a better job then "the Beast" who didn't want to start after a few kilometers. Lucky that all Nepale's drive motorbike, so they some how fixed it in a minute. The River was nice and excluded we tought, only to find out that excluded means having a road next to our spot. But this far out of the city there is allmost nobody there. Although the girls got some attention of the local boys. Who probably had a really nice sleep the next coming night.
In the meantime Josephine arrived in Pokhara after a trekking of 8 days. Josephine was one of the 8 people I traveld with in India. See met a Belgium girl from Brugge. (Now Tom and me couldn't speak brabands anymore because the girl could hear everything, to bad... :-P).
Now 5 days later the Girls left, Tom is almost home, he took a bus to Delhi of 36 hours and has his flight this Friday. Hope he arrived alive. We even celebrated 2067 New Year yesterday night. Fireworks and everything, they are still celebrating.
In a few days I leave Pokhara to go trekking, minimal 14 days but probably 18/19 for the Annapurna Circuit. So the next update will probably be in a week or 3. Don't worry, there are a lot of people on the trek so I should be fine! And I will have some lovely pictures of the Mounteverst. Hear you later!
Kathmandu
14-04-2010
15:39:47
Nepal
I haven't let anything hear from me for the last few weeks so here a good update until now. As you all know, I left India and am now in Nepal. It's more quite and beautifull up here. A big difference to India even with all the Indians here. Kathmandu is a big city and pretty touristic, but still very nice. Although I don't think I should have stayed there to long (7 days). Not a lot to see in the city center and more expencive then I thought.
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End of my India trip, now in Nepal
31-03-2010
12:48:14
Nepal
Short message from Nepal. Electricity is not endless here so i need to make it quick. I Left India yesterday the 30th of March after 2,5 months. Exactly till the last day of my Indian Visa. It's COLD in Nepal, after India it feels really cold here and I even had thunder and rain yesterday after I arrived. A 22 degrees seems hopt for you but after South India it feels like winter. I suddenly get why all thoses african immigrants in hollland complain that it is so cold....
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