All posts tagged: Kathmandu

Lukla to Kathmandu for 3 days

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Last night was hilarious, a celebration of the end of our trek, with us shouting our crew a few beers after a successful trip. For days now we have been hearing about Suba’s (one of our porters) prowess on the dance floor, and we finally got to see him in all his glory jiving away, with a few beers under his belt, to the intoxicating Nepalese beats! What a groover! The rest of the boys didn’t hold back either, especially after lubrication, hitting the dance floor at the lodge till the bar was shutdown, thankfully at 10 as our bar tab was getting substantially inflated! Great to see everyone in relax mode, especially the porters who have a tough job lugging our gear for 17 days, and deserve all the beer they could down, which was A LOT!! Credit to them though, they all crawled out of bed at 5.30am to farewell us at the airport, especially Mingma who looked decidedly wobbly! Only Dawa was flying back to Kathmandu with us, the rest live in …

Two Days in Kathmandu

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We got into Kathmandu at about 10.30 on Saturday night, but didn’t get to our hotel till about 12.30am due mainly to the shambles that is arrivals at the airport. Filling out Visa forms on ancient computers, lining up to pay for the visa, then queuing to go thru hand luggage scanning. Why? No idea, but only one machine worked, and regardless of whether it flashed red or green, the security guy just sat looking bored as. The baggage collection area was a sea of bags, flung every which way. Finally, after finding our bags randomly, a crawl thru to bag inspection, then thankfully out looking for our lift. A complete dogs breakfast! Our ride was there, so all ended well. Sunday was catch up with sleep morning till about 9, breakfast, then out to find coffee and a few supplies. Nepal is a third world country and Kathmandu fits the bill nicely. It is a glorious riot of crazy electrics, wild traffic on crumbling roads, cars and bikes competing for precious space, horns playing …

Melbourne to Kathmandu, via KL

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Our journey begins at Melbourne International Airport, which would manage a miserably low score of about 2/10, and the 2 is for speed through customs, the rest, forget it! The whole place is under renovation, except Hungry Jacks, which should be!! Seriously folks, the most diabolical excuse for a hamburger EVER!! The queue went for ever, courtesy of being about the only joint open, and the end result…. This was Liz’s first Hungry Jacks experience, next time we’ll just slap two bits of cardboard together with a sliver of grease. To wash the horror out of our system we went searching for a drink, with limited success. Every promised offering was “coming soon”! Finally a beer was secured in a random bar, then thank God, our flight boarded. Thanks to changed layover times, we had 12 hours to kill in Kuala Lumpur which luckily included use of the airport hotel for the day. Man, the bed looked enticing, but why catch up on no sleep when you can schleep around town for a few hours? …