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When we arrived in the airport Karma gave us these scarves Sonahm was playing with us with Ati and Norbu in Karma’s house in Kathmandu. After that we found our room and watched TV with everyone and had supper. We had dal baht, the secret of our energy!! The next day it was brothers dayContinue reading “Kathmandu”

(NB – our camera has been sent back to the UK for repair 😢) From Kathmandu, our journey into South East Asia takes us via Kuala Lumpur. We only have one day here before we head to Laos – the airport is about an hour’s drive from the city centre, so our original plan wasContinue reading “Gateway to South East Asia”

In Laos we went to a brilliant place called Vang Vieng. We went to the Blue Lagoon where you can do dives off trees and backflips and front flips. We saw how much the zip lining was and the next day we went back and did it. It wasn’t like a normal zip line withContinue reading “Zipping zip lines”

(Our camera is broken so it’s on way its’ back on a plane to John Lewis to be fixed! The phone camera will have to do from now on…. AHHHH Asia ! It’s great to be back in SE Asia. We make a quick 24 hr stop in KL. It was bad planning stopping here,Continue reading “Laos 1 – Limes, Coconuts, Lemongrass and baguettes are back on the menu.”

We arrived in Nepal with Greetings from Karma who was going to take us on a tour around the mountains. We headed towards him and he headed towards us and gave us some scarfs as a welcome to Nepal which was lovely! We arrived in Kathmandu at 9 am – as we arrived we gotContinue reading “Arrival in Nepal”

We’ve seen Karma’s village of Syafru from several vantage points throughout our trek. However, it’s only when we arrive that we can appreciate its unique situation, perched along a sharp ridge with views on one side to the Ganesh Himal (elephant) range and the Langtang peaks on the other. Straight down the valley, we canContinue reading “Chilling in the mountains”

Karma’s mother weaves a belt On completing the Tamang Heritage trek we join the more popular Langtang trek as the valley creeps up the mountains and we get quite a shock as we are now suddenly without any warning on a mainstream trek, following large groups of tourists. The high-tech Japanese in droves, with multiContinue reading “Nepal 4 – Village Life”

We take the 7.30 am bus to Pokhara. Karma and his wife Karmu accompany us there, his guiding duties are over, but they decide to take a few days holiday with us. Karma is a delightful man, with a fun sense of humour and we all enjoy his company. It’s a lovely bus journey, easy,Continue reading “Nepal 3 -In the shadow of Everest”

This is the starting point of our trek There are not many places in the world where you can walk in the stunning mountains, stopping frequently in  local villages, bursting with culture and interest, and enormous hospitality, to be fed cardamom chais and soups by day and suppers with a glass of beer by night,Continue reading “Nepal 2 – Tamang Heritage trek”