On Thursday morning I left the Pokhara Valley on a tourist bus (so-called only because most of the passengers were tourists but which was in fact a ‘local’ bus - see below!) and headed south to Lumbini - the birthplace of the Buddha. The bus took the Siddhartha Highway (note: Gautam Siddhartha was Buddha’s name [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>Been a busy trip so far! Olivia joined me on my last of three days in Kathmandu and then yesterday morning, we flew to Pokhara with Buddha Air on a twin-prop airplane! Pokhara is a Nepali town nestled at the foothills of the Annapurna Range of the Himalayas. Unfortuately her trip was a short [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>I started my 15-day backpacking trip through Nepal and India yesterday, by flying into Kathmandu.
I’ll be staying here for a few days - but have not yet made a real plan of things to see or do. At the moment I’m just wandering the streets talking to some of the locals. Today I’m planning to [...]