ready for take off

I finally made it. Backpack weight is 8 kilo.....
I finally made it. Backpack weight is 8 kilo.....
If you read horror stories about kathmandu airport and visa process: at least today was easy...
If you read horror stories about Kathmandu traffic: they are all true...
That's most people's dresscode here...
There is a very special app here: it's telling you how long it will be until electricity is switched off next time. They cannot produce enough, so it is switched off, area by area, daily.
And that'sЧитать далее
So what do you do in Kathmandu? It's walking around the old town, visiting temples, the old king palaces. And talking to people, or they talking to you because they want to sell something. But it'sЧитать далее
It's only 200 km but it takes 8 hours... The road is terrible, it's shaking all the time, you cannot read, you cannot write, you cannot sleep. And you see a couple of trucks that obviously haveЧитать далее
So after the fabulous bus ride I found a better transportation to Chitwan national park in the south: rafting the Seti river.
They take you out of town, put you in a raft, you camp on the beach,Читать далее
Near the Indian border you find Chitwan National Park, a nature reserve of 900 sqkm.
It's called jungle, but not matching my idea of jungle. It's a lot of grassland and open forests.
You can seeЧитать далее
A short busride away from Chitwan: the mountain town Tansen.
Well, short busride means: getting on the local bus at 9 in the morning. Finding out the road is blocked because of construction works.Читать далее
I have seen a couple of concerts now in Kathmandu. Of course western music, Nepali music is for me forever connected with terrible bus rides.
It's always the same: excellent musicians, excellentЧитать далее