Travel Day 1010 – Extended Langtang Trek, NEPAL 01/15 – Kathmandu via Shyaphru Besi to Goljung La (2300) After a pretty hectic day yesterday and a night of last-minute packing, we were finally off to our Extended Langtang Trek at 6 am in the morning… Well, we were off in the Super Deluxe Express Bus […]
Packing for Langtang Trek in Nepal
Nepal: TIMS, ACAP and Park Permit
Chinese Invasion of Nepal?
Travel Day 1007 – Kathmandu, NEPAL Since I arrived in Kathmandu, something seemed to be quite different from how it had been two years ago: all of a sudden the Chinese had arrived! Two years ago the largest group of foreigners in Kathmandu were clearly the Israelis. There were Israeli restaurants, signs written in Hebrew […]
Camera Repair in Kathmandu
Travel Day 1006 – Kathmandu, NEPAL Of course it happened again: no matter how much I hoped that this time around everything would be different, my camera broke again… I actually lost track of my overall count, but this must have been the 9th camera that I went through while travelling. Not only was the […]
Dakshinkali Temple and Pharping
More Kathmandu Thamel Days
Travel Day 1002-04 – Kathmandu, NEPAL After roaming around the area for a couple of days, it seemed like a good idea to try to focus again and sort things out in busy Thamel… So far I had hopelessly tried to organize some cheap tours to destinations that really interested me, but slowly the awareness […]
Buddhist Stupa in Boudhanath
Travel Day 1001 – Kathmandu, NEPAL After my somewhat interesting visit at the Pashupatinath Temple, it was about time to rather visit a site that I actually cared for, Boudhanath… Boudhanath was next to Swayambhunath the most important Buddhist site in Nepal and it too was an enlisted UNESCO World Heritage Site. Boudhanath was actually […]
UNESCO Pashupatinath Temple
Swayambhunath, Monkey Temple
Travel Day 999 – Kathmandu, NEPAL It was Sunday, it was the last day of my friend in town and after the eventful concert yesterday, we decided to take it easy and have a stroll up to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Swayambunath, the MonkeyTemple… Swayambhunath was apparently one of the two places in […]
Nepali Village Concert in Manamaiju
Travel Day 998 – Kathmandu and Manamaiju, NEPAL After the day with the Napali girls had been so great, I thought that this day couldn’t possibly get any better, but I was far from right… While running around over the last couple of days, I had passed many music instrument stores and when they either […]
Panipuri and the Nepali Girls
Travel Day 997 – Kathmandu, NEPAL After not having achieved anything really over the last three days, I reckoned that it would be best to rather enjoy the city a little bit, especially because the weather finally seemed to get better… Well, unfortunately the weather really just seemed to get better and once I arrived […]