So, I got a bit slack after my adventure on the river. Made it back to Pokhara after the river trip. Portaging the dam on the Marsyandi took a while, so take your time and use a really long throw bag (60m or 2x30m), portage on river left. After the river I took sometime to recuperate, doing a Upper seti trip before Katrina arriving in Kathmandu. I needed to get to to Kathmandu before she arrives as I needed to sort out my Indian visiting visa, and researched that it would take atleast a week. I said goodbye to the Germans who were heading to Kathmandu around the same time to attempt some rivers in East Nepal like the Bhote Kosi etc. David got sick the night before the bus trip over the pass, and I wasn't far away. The very day of the bus trip to Kathmandu I got D. So I made the bus stop at the next toilet so I could relieve myself. If I had cared I would have been embarrassed but as I felt I was knocking on death's door it didn't matter. I wasn't far away though from V as the next day after I started the Indian Visa monkey business in the morning I spewed the entire day, requiring both D&V to utterly clear anything living inside of me. It was then I decided to embark on a pharmaceutical 'War on Terror' to take down the terrorists inside of me. I popped pills that I thought were going to help....afterwards feeling like rubbish and drinking water. I lay in bed for two or three days in the Hotel before Katrina arrived. I don't really remember much now (as I'm writing this almost 6 months later) but these are the fun things travelling you need to build your body up to handle. Thankfully I was well conditioned living in Queenstown after maintaining a healthy winter weight. Anyway, so things worked out ok, I picked up Keys and thought a few days in Bhaktapur would be a great way to introduce her to Nepal and see something both of us haven't seen.
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| Enjoying milk tea at our hotels roof top restaurant - pagoda in the background |
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| Pagoda Guest house - where we stayed in Bhaktapur |
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| duttatraya square Katrina sporting first purchase of the trip |
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| Ross sitting outside hotel in front of pagoda |
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| looking into Taumaudi square from restaurant |
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| Ross below the pagoda |
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| Taumaudi square from the pagoda |
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| Famous peacock window |
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| temple with lots of bells - purpose?...to keep ross awake |
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| walking to bus stop - ross over photos :-) |
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| King Curd !!! - Faye you would love this stuff - thick and creamy - heaven |
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| Ross with the King Curd in front of Pohkari |
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| Calf in Kathmandu - thinks hes a motorbike? |
did you hug the calfy he looks so cute!!
ReplyDeletecrazy town- wires
awesome buildings!!
Just been reading some of your blogs, sounds like you're having a great time! Everyone gets scammed at some point when they're travelling, it's not nice but neither is it the part that sticks in your mind. Once had to pay way over the odds to be rowed across a lake when the old guy that was rowing stopped way out from the shore to take our money. He had no change to give us from our large note despite the fact that we'd been assured that wouldn't be a problem - mugs!
ReplyDeletePS any snakes/crocs/creepy crawlies in these waters?!