Out of 19 capital cities, Kathmandu was the easiest to ride into
Hotel Baghdadi, Rahipur
“One selfie please sir!”
Making new friends in Chaumal
Snakes near a tandem
Another border successfully crossed
Traffic free bliss
Village in far west Nepal
Huge lily covered lake
Village in far west Nepal
A good display of Topis
Traffic free streets
Chickens on the move
Tigers hate hearing beeping horns, much like us
A night in the ‘Riverside Cottage Guesthouse.’ More a barn 200m from a drainage ditch.
“It’s very hard” he kept saying
A protest on the streets of
Flat and ordered fields
Making friends in Gorusinge
So begins the game of chase the lizard
Off to school with Uba, Dia and Pushpa
The English School in Gorusinge
Queue of motor bikes at a petrol station
Charity funded information sign which seems to be about using a phone while going to the toilet
Young monks in Lumbini
Buddha statue, Lumbini
This 2600 year old tree began growing on the day Buddha was born.
Monks congregate at the birthplace of Buddha.
The Korean Monastery in Lumbini
World Peace Pagoda, Lumbini
Burmese temple, Lumbini
High capacity panniers
We’ve reached 20,000km!
Making fresh jalebis for our breakfast
There’s always something to smile about
Steep and relentless
Finally at the top
Cafe floor refuge
Cafe, building site and home
So surprised to see a double cycle that he rode into a ditch,
Uplift
Open top bus ride
Dropping into the outskirts of Kathmandu
The only kind of fuel we need is steak
Hundreds of taxis queue for petrol
The quiet streets of Thamel
Most of Durba Square is still standing
Earthquake damage near Kathmandu Durba Square
Sadhu at Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu
Pashupatinath Temples
The headless Boudhanath stupa
A smaller, but still complete stupa
Kirsty loves momos
Cooking class with Asmita
Can we eat them now?
Permanent ‘dirty finger’ tan
Swayambhunath (Monkey Temple)
View of Kathmandu from Swayambhunath (Monkey Temple)
Banana sellers hassle the occupants of the buses as soon as they stop
A goat on it’s first and final bus ride
Cyclists becoming hikers
Tea time with a view
Nepalese ponies, the strongest horses in the world
Our host for a night at the Annurpurna View Guest House
Annurpurna South peeping over the hills
Nepalese porters, the strongest men in the world
Ghorepani, the village at the base of Poon Hill
In front of Annarpurna 1 (8091m) and Annurpurna South (7,219m)
Annapurna Panorama
Dhaulagiri range (8167m)
Dhaulagiri
Dawn on Poon Hill
Happy hiker
Rhododendron forest
3967….3968…3969…
Namaste!
Sharing out the meat for Dashain
Entire hillsides have been cut into terraces
Sunshine on the terraces
Bamboo ‘pin’ swing
Red painted children celebrating Dashain
Phewa Lake, Pokhara
Sunrise over Pockhara
Dawn over Pokhara
View from Pokhara World Peace Pagoda at dawn
Kathmandu General Post Office
A yeti with a man in a furry white suit
Not a typing error as it really is 2072 in the Nepalese calendar.
Kathmandu’s greatest mountain biker
Every doorway houses a shrine or a shop draped in crisp packets and biscuits
The canyoning crew
Don’t look down
Bus surfing
Back on the road at long last
New SADLE Charity Refuge, Kathmandu
Taranath
We made sure stuck to the rules
Our Vietnamese guide (we didn’t catch his name unfortunately)
Kopan Monastery
Steps to nowhere: the Siddhi Laxmi Temple is no longer there
Nyatapolo Pagoda
First the earthqukes then the fuel crisis. 2015 has been a terrible year.
Doorway in the Durbha Square
Sifting the rice
Bhaktapur
Threshing the rice
“Is that her husband?” “No, it’s her brother”
Straw stacks
Bjorn and Jens
Al fresco bedroom
Today’s special: Roast buff
The BP Highway
The BP Highway
What goes up, must come down
Bjorn and Jens
Hairpins a-plenty on the BP Highway
The church hall outside
Get Lucky or be Dum
Big queues for the scarce petrol supplies
Ortlieb’s new panniers look a bit heavy
A lady carrying a heavy load over the Khoshi River bridge
Our hosts in
The guest suite in
Tandem -power!
Approaching the border at Mechinagar
