Walking through the ugly yellow archway onto Indian soil we were stopped very briefly by a policeman to check our passports and visas and that was it, we were in India. The border town on the Indian side of the crossing is called Sanauli and like most border towns it...
An entire day was spent in Kathmandu trying to figure out the best way to get to Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha, in the Terrai region of Nepal. Nepali people generally don’t like to not give an answer when asked a question and so finding things out can be quite...
NOTE: You may find these images disturbing! Gods in the Hindu religion have different incarnations and one of these normally has a darker or more powerful side to their personality. Kali is the blood thirsty incarnation of Shiva’s wife Parvati and in order to satisfy...
Having already visited Kathmandu’s Durbar Square and Bhaktaur’s Durbar square, we completed our trio of medieval city-states in the Kathmandu Valley with a trip to the Durbar Square Patan. Patan is now a more upmarket suburb of Kathmandu, home to fancy restaurants and...
The Nepalese cuisine may not be as well known as Indian, Chinese, Italian or Thai but what they do, they do extremely well. The Nepali food is an eclectic mix of flavours from neighbouring Tibet to the north and India in the south. If you haven’t tried Nepali...
Annapurna Base Camp Trek Day 7: Machhapuchhre Base Camp to Bamboo, taking in Sunrise at Annapurna Base Camp We woke up in the pitch black at 3:30am and slowly, still half asleep, pulled on our trekking clothes, laced up our shoes and ventured out into the crisp...
Annapurna Base Camp Trek Day 4: Tadapani to Chomrong Thankfully the rain had stopped by the time we got up this morning and we had clear skies to begin our walk to Chomrong. At this point the trail splits in two; north-east to Chomrong to join the Annapurna Base Camp...
Annapurna Base Camp Trek Day 1: Naya Pul to Tikhedhungga Starting the day with breakfast in Pokhara, the excitement was building ahead of starting the Annapurna Base Camp trek. The two-hour bus to Naya Pul was the usual ‘life on the edge’ experience, but we made it in...
