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Travel Day 1080 – Kopan, Nepal to Bangkok, THAILAND It was an Active Travel Day again, but after all the time in the monastery, being back on the road felt awfully strange… In the end I spend about a full month at Kopan Monastery and I felt so comfortable and protected on the monastic compound […]
Travel Day 1056 – Kathmandu, NEPAL While I was thinking to just spend one single night in Kathmandu, once the realization came how much I needed to get done, I simply had to change my plans… Initially I wanted to leave this afternoon for the monastery, knowing that I had to arrive before 5pm because […]
Travel Day 1055 – Pokhara to Kathmandu, NEPAL It was finally an Active Travel Day again and after spending almost a month in the Pokhara area, I was on the move back to Kathmandu… As I had noticed on my bus ride to Pokhara before, it was off-season and most of the tourist buses were […]
Travel Day 1009 – Kathmandu, NEPAL My friend arrived today and we decided to go trekking as early as tomorrow morning, so all of a sudden I really had a lot of creative packing to do… Actually before we could even think of packing, a few organizational things had to be done and with that, […]
Travel Day 1008 – Kathmandu, NEPAL At this point it was quite clear already that I would use my time in Kathmandu to do the Langtang Trek, only when exactly I would leave and how long I would go for was still in question… Well, it was also still in question where exactly I would […]
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 […]
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 […]
Travel Day 1005 – Kathmandu Valley, NEPAL One of the things that I had not done last time in Nepal was visiting the famous Dakshinkali Temple at the southern end of the Kathmandu Valley and Saturday was supposed to be the best day for that… So I found myself early in the morning walking through […]
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 […]
Travel Day 1000 – Kathmandu, NEPAL It was Monday morning and as the Nepali girls recommended, this was the best time of the week to visit the UNESCO enlisted Pashupatinath Temple… I had set my mind on walking all the way from Thamel and when I finally came down the last little hill, I arrived […]
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 […]
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 […]
Travel Day 994-96 – Kathmandu, NEPAL After running around for my first two days, by now it seemed like a good idea to rather use the bad weather to sort out some things in Thamel… In general it already seemed last time that Thamel was the curse and the blessing of Kathmandu at the same […]