Now that things have calmed down a bit, I need to finish my Annapurna trek stories. Here was our itinerary for those who have maybe done this trek before:
Day 1: Phedi to Tolka
Day 2: Tolka to Chhomrong
Day 3: Chhomrong to Bamboo
Day 4: Bamboo to Deurali
Day 5: Deurali
Day 6: Deurali to Annapurna Base Camp (ABC)
Day [...]
A year ago I posted an entry entitled ‘First Impressions’ (you can read it HERE and I highly urge you to read it as it will make this post make a lot more sense). An old friend commented on the post saying that it will be interesting to see my last impressions when I [...]
So little to do, so much time. Strike that, reverse it.
My last few days in Nepal are going faster than two cheese coneys in the hands of a fat man. Got back from trekking, went to Lumbini, and now its Dipawali (or Diwali) (or Tihar) and the city is going crazy! But [...]
As promised here are my pics from Kathmandu Durbar Square. I visited there awhile back, but failed to post anything. This was right before my visit to Pokhara, however, so it was a busy few weeks. Better late than never!
We started at the Kumari Ghar where the Kumari Living Goddess lives. [...]
So I’m not going to Sagarmatha. After nearly 24 hours waiting at the airport (spread over 4 days), getting up at 4:45 every morning to get to the airport by 5:45, and sitting there until 11:30 or so to hear that the flight has been canceled due to weather, our window of travel has [...]
I visited Old Dhaka to check out some of the more historical sites. Old Dhaka reminds me a lot of Kathmandu, especially the Thamel area. Tight streets lined with small shops covering everything from clothes to brooms to cement coloring. Rickshaws are the mode of transportation of choice in this area. [...]
Hmm. Where to begin? Its much easier to write as you go than to have to look back, so I guess I’ll start from the beginning.
I arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday evening and headed out Friday morning to go south to the coastal belt around Barisal and Patuakhali. We continued south on [...]
I’m back in Dhaka after a ten hour car ride. I have not seen a bideshi (foreigner) since Friday morning. When that happens, I know I’m seeing the good stuff. That means I’m off the beaten path, seeing the true sides of the country and not what all the tourists see. [...]
Right now I’m traveling south into Bangladesh. I’m using my friends iPhone to post from the road. There is a thermometer in the car that keeps going up the further we go. It reads 34 celcius right now. Not sure in Fahrenheit, but it’s warm.
The driving is a lot like Honduras where the answer [...]
