Nepal

The river flows…It flows to the sea…Wherever that river goes…That’s where I want to be…Flow river flow…Let your waters wash down…Take me from this road…To some other town. — Roger …

‘Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood…When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud…I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. …

  Tuesday, April 1, 2008 6:43 am We depart on our trek at 8am. For the fourth morning, I awoke at dawn to birds chirping, a cow or ox moo’ing, …

The morning after deciding on which guide/porter to hire, Gela informed the manager at her guest house, and we met up for lunch at Boomerang, a restaurant with an idyllic …

  Around the time I was in Hong Kong, I had updated my TravBuddy.com profile to reflect my plans to trek in Nepal in April. It was the first time …

7:38 am I went to Moondance Restaurant with Rob and Rosie and two other kayakers joined us – Mike (France, 36) and Vasiili (Siberia, Russia, 32). I was surprised to …

7:55 am Stuck in traffic on the bus from Kathmandu to Pokhara. I’m 1 of 4 Westerners (all notably in the back seats except one old large white guy). Local …

Finished reading “The Beach” this morning after not being able to fall asleep until 2am last night. Power was out when I awoke – I can tell by the hum …

Thamel is the tourist neighborhood of Kathmandu, meaning there are a plethora of outdoor stores selling fake supplies most notably North Face (err, “North Fake”) and Mountain Hard Wear clothing …

Touchdown was perfect. Kathmandu is big and sprawling – colorful buildings surrounded by mountains. I wrote up the Visa application, got two passport photos taken, changed my Chinese yuen and …

The flight from Chengdu to Lhasa was cool – crossing over the Tibetan Plateau – the snow-capped, glacier-ridden mountains slowly coming into view through the cloud cover. Getting to the …

I’ve come down from the mountains in the Annapurna region of Nepal after a 10-day trek. It was by far the hardest physical experience of my life, and required quite …

Dear readers, You may have picked up that I schedule posts (about a week) ahead of time.  This allows me to enter a new country and get acclimated (financially, physically, …

Reaching mainland Asia on my ’round the world trip meant I needed to start thinking about what I was going to do for my Nepal trek.

While planning for his RTW trip, Dave considers picking a trek in Nepal, with Annapurna Circuit and Everest Base Camp being lead contenders.

I made a noteworthy change to the early part of my ’round the world backpacking itinerary. It’s a change in route, rather than countries I intend to visit. Initially, I …