On the 6th we head to the outskirts of the Kathmandu Valley, on a rather interesting bus trip. At one point Joe who was sitting in the window was practically looking at the ditch, it's a wonder how the bags stayed on actually! So we off loaded and threw our bags into the jeep which headed up the mountain/ hill thing. In England it would be a mountain, here its merely a hill! But in climbing this thing we climed over the the boarder of the kathmandu valley. And boy was it difficult. For me anyway, majority of the group bombed on ahead
and i hung back due to the ridiculous weight i thought was suitable to carry in my daysack. The walking stick was invaluable on this trudge, but everyone was in such good spirits lovely Magnus swapped ruck sack with me. and then i managed to off load this on the Richard and then to Gaurav. Confused? Well it made it up the hill! No leopards spotted despite the possiblity. When we got there greated by chia and lunch. check out the views. It was a little colder up there, but we were bloody high! at night Julia and i had the rather jammy deal of having a fire in our room, which we stoked up before hitting the hay! A couple of days highlighted by a roaring fire (after some parafin), beer and wooly hats! One
morning we woke up early to watch the sun rise come up and just hit the moutains, although it was even better aroud 8 o clock when the sun just peeped over the hill behind us. Learning Nepali by day, and playing cards and getting to know each other by night. Although our stay was cut short by the impending Bandh (strike) which meant that we had to leave a day early in order to not get stuck in kathmandu till tuesday. After mine and julias epic fight with the green slug, we set off dow the hill. Now this time i am pleased to add i made it the whole of the way down the hill FIRST! We loaded the bus and set in to Kathmandu to pick up Sarah and Carmella who had been replacement shopping. a
nd the we hit a snag.... puncture. this is Richard hanging outside the bus whilst the bus driver changed what had been a brand new tyre. Rfinally after being stuck in traffic, during which i fell asleep and woke up again in the same place.....we were on our way to Riverside to stay the night before our trip to Gorkha!
and i hung back due to the ridiculous weight i thought was suitable to carry in my daysack. The walking stick was invaluable on this trudge, but everyone was in such good spirits lovely Magnus swapped ruck sack with me. and then i managed to off load this on the Richard and then to Gaurav. Confused? Well it made it up the hill! No leopards spotted despite the possiblity. When we got there greated by chia and lunch. check out the views. It was a little colder up there, but we were bloody high! at night Julia and i had the rather jammy deal of having a fire in our room, which we stoked up before hitting the hay! A couple of days highlighted by a roaring fire (after some parafin), beer and wooly hats! One
morning we woke up early to watch the sun rise come up and just hit the moutains, although it was even better aroud 8 o clock when the sun just peeped over the hill behind us. Learning Nepali by day, and playing cards and getting to know each other by night. Although our stay was cut short by the impending Bandh (strike) which meant that we had to leave a day early in order to not get stuck in kathmandu till tuesday. After mine and julias epic fight with the green slug, we set off dow the hill. Now this time i am pleased to add i made it the whole of the way down the hill FIRST! We loaded the bus and set in to Kathmandu to pick up Sarah and Carmella who had been replacement shopping. a
nd the we hit a snag.... puncture. this is Richard hanging outside the bus whilst the bus driver changed what had been a brand new tyre. Rfinally after being stuck in traffic, during which i fell asleep and woke up again in the same place.....we were on our way to Riverside to stay the night before our trip to Gorkha!
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