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New trousers and money belt and group
Ok so this will be the last one! Just bought some red windproof
trousers, hopefully snow proof too! We will be traversing a glacier at
some point!
Also have a new faux northface money pouch now too hihi
We fly at 630 tomorrow on yeti airways ! Hugh can google that.. To lukla
My group is comprised of 7 and the leader Ashok, the others are Jon
and Lee, Andrea?, Natalie, Travis and another Philip… 2 Brits, one
Canadian one kiwi 2 Aussies.
Think the English guys from brum are youngest!
We all went to KEEP earlier( kathmandu environmental educational
project) to learn about what to do with our rubbish and stuff!
Have dinner in one hour! Then back to pack!
I wonder how Cath is on her trek! Did our goodbyes last night! Waited
for tom for brekkie but he no show but I was 5 mins late! So never see
him again.
All new beging now!
February 27, 2009
Bye for now! Sunset in Kathmandu
Didn't blog pokhora,didn't blog chitwan setting fires, hearing animals
and tracking them through the jungle! Didn't blog kayak we rented
either.
Join Everest Base Camp trek tour tomorrow! And say more good byes!
This morning started it all off! All with a range of varying
hangovers, I'd say mine was least worse! Anyway Cath, and I met Brian,
Audery and Papi for a final breakfast, I had caramel latte and
chocolate croissont ( erm I can't spell it) I should have called in
pain au choclat.
Anyway we said goodbye after outside then hotel, we loose 3 more
including the guide so thats it for our tour! It was great to meet all
three of them, and now I should be aquiring at least two more blog
readers! Hi guys! Hope you had a good flight or two or is it three
( they go back to Canada via Brussells) oh And via Delhi for the taj
and Agra oooh a long couple of days for u!
This afternoon the final three had a subway type sandwich, it was
yummm, Cath and I shared we have both spent mega bucks in last month!
then we went shopping, I needed a bag with better back support and
cath needed one too so we bargained and got me a shirt and her
trousers for a reduced rate! Wanted some free undies but that didn't
work!
Bag looks really nice but I'm paranoid it will hurt me! It's faux
north face ;) yellow and black cost about 11 quid! Same amount as my
sweeties shop ;( dairy milk 95g is 111 Nepalese rupees about 1GBP rip
off but I hear I'll need them ;)
Maybe I'll blog tomorrow! Don't know! Going for dinner soon.
Meeting tour at 1pm tomorrow! Wish me luck, I hear there's 7 in my
group, as long as I'm not the crap moany slow sleepy one I'll be fine!
Xoxo
February 24, 2009
Chitwan National Park – 24th Feb err Nepal
Sooo here I am, actually sitting in an internet cafe for a change retyping this from off of my iphone screen!.. shitty but its the best i can do here, cannot get wifi and out here there is not even an atm or somewhere to buy a sim card for that matter,.. at least now I can edit it properlly and add bits as i go along.
After my loss and drama, i am ver much back in the swing of things.
“am having a lay down now, in the oppostie bed is my new roomie, Cath! Its nice to share a room with someone who is less sleepy (Sorry Tom, but you are sleepy, and Its difficult pottering around in the dark, oh and sorry if you read this… least you have your own room now) now I have someone to share my himalya skin peel face mask with :) Cath says we will do facials too ehheehh doubt we will, ill save that for when im back with Queen F :)
Yesterday was long! Very Long, too long…grrr we took a rickerty old jeep which had painfull seats, but reportedly good suspension from Lumbini to Chitwan!.. im not sure ive mentioned previouslny or not, but I am now in Nepal! ” on the way we had a minor accident and lost one of our wing mirrors to a big ol dusty truck, it was quite dramatic and alittle bit scary and out of the blue….. could have been alot worse… scary stuff this travel by road…..,. speaking of the roads, they are rough and bumpy here, and lucky if tehre is tarmac…. also all along the way there are checkpoints and stops, where officials, non officals and even kids demand money from you to pass.
We arrived at our rather swish (well from the outside) hotel, set in beautiful palm gardens..
Oh I didnt mention the hotel before… really basic, and our first shock… Nepal doesnt have electricity for the majority of the day… eeek i think this place shuts soon…
anyway,,, maybe ill shorten this a bit… charging my phone and camera is going to become a bit of on ordeal…
back to yesterday.. brian, audery (canadian couple with a 40 year old kid, so both very well preserved and ageless even.. meaning ive no idea their age ) and I took the option to goto the Elephant Breeding center, some of the practices are a bit questionable but the information there was very interesting…. also our guide showed me a photo of a rhino who had had its tusk stolen, it was sick and sad..
We saw a pair of rare twin elephants, and a few other babies.. one of which we were allowed to feel.. it was very sweet and quite amazing..
all was going welll until suddenly from out of the blue the little baby shunted audery, it was trying to get her biscuits which she already had given all out…it pushed her as she ran and sent her flying through the air,… I heard the commotion (elephants walking past in street now) and as i turned i saw her feet off the ground and landing heavily on her arm and wrist, she was quite a good sport and despite the bloody knee and aarm was quite fine, enoighj for the nature walk we gad afterwards….
when we got back we all went for adinner, it was a special festival on the hindu calendar so we were offered special cake as an appetizer!.. i didnt partake, but i did consume my first ever Buff Burger, which was actually Buffallo, it was yummy and certrainly had a nepalli twist.
This morning another early one, (once we get to kathmandu, im taking the last day off to rest) we took a different truck to the national park, and all got on elephants!
Four people per elephant left one of us on their own, so I volunteereed to leave the group.I joined a family, an indian couple who live 3 hours away, Sunil and Joanna, they both work in a hospital and were celebrating their 20th wedding aniversary, after meeting at med school. heeh a love marriage. oooh they both had amazing english too, as did their young daugther :) they speal english because it was their common language, as both parents came from different parts of india…
The elephant safar was fun but had an unpleasant sight..sad :( we saw a male Rhine, my group on one side in there elephant and us opposite… what we didnt see was the gashes all over its neck where it had lost a fight with another male…it might die..
so anyway, little did we know at the time that the other side was so grusome, I had no idea why my group looked so sad..had it been summer the rhino may have more change of survival, but due to climate now its not so hot..
back to now, or rather earlier when i typed this… had lunh snack of crackers and my egg from breakfast.., off to kayak tour now.. fora little prescatarian croc watching and a jungle walke..
oh i went on the trek. ill type it up and hope send from phoen tomorrow.. jsut found some great data rates…
laters
philip xoxo
Delhi – Varanasi – Lumbini?
Ok, suspect this'll be brief!
Yawn ! Delhi: coffee, phone calls, tuktuk, consulate, tuktuk, Foreign
Regional Registration Office, passport photos, ATM, visit to a whole
other side if Delhi! Office workers! Run down offices! Then back to
FRRO..tuktuk Rush back to Karoo bagh!
Chocolate fudge shopping again! Hotel! Rest? Taxi, 14 hour train!
Yesterday we arrived in Varanasi! We witnessed a full fight at the
side of the Ganges between fathers! There was a but if everything from
nudity to old women joining in with slaps and canes!
During the fight a young man called Veni joined us, only 13 and had
the best English we had heard, he gave us a bit of a guided tour,
would accept our money just wanted us to visit his uncles store?
Unfortunatly for him we didn't but we did feed him and get him a drink!
After leaving our pint sized freind we braved the manky water in a
boat and saw the ghats ( bathing areas) including the ones where 24×7
the 'Doms' build funeral pyres and burn the bodys! It didn't smell of
bacon as I'd expected! But just wood! The others saw legs fall out if
a fire! All I saw was the bits which don't burn being removed from the
ashes and thrown in the river!
We also watched an amzing ceremony, and making it extra exciting was
the hundreds if other people also watching from boats like us!
After that we went back through the busy streets to our hotel! And all
had out last meals in India! I had chicken and chips which Greek
salad, weird fetta! Cath had chicken burger , tom had bolognese!
Hihihihi oh and we had lovely chocolate icecream fudge browniemmmmmmm
I think this is enough! Up at 4:45, it's now 11, couple of hours and
we will reach the border! Bye India Namaste Nepal!
If I had a laptop I'd go through my past entries and sum it up, but I
don't so I won't!
It's been an awesome eye popping tummy tormentingexperience!
Xoxo
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Philip Anderson
"it's always an adventure"
http://vwhiz.com/blog
February 21, 2009
Last night in India
Last night with my Airtel! Back with group in Varanasi after
horrendous train! Up at 5 am in morning to lumbini! May go quiet for a
while! Xoxo
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Philip Anderson
"it's always an adventure"
http://vwhiz.com/blog
