- Kathmandu

Nepal
The streets of Kathmandu seem almost deserted when we drive out of the airport at 11.30pm. It is raining and about 25 degrees cooler ...
- Bandipur

Shanti and Tashi have organised for us to hire a car and driver (potentially safer than taking the bus and probably as economic for ...
- Pokhara and the Tibetan Refugee Villiage

We drive on to Pokhara, which is the lakeside town from where it is good to do several short or longer treks. Of course ...
- Lumbini

Lumbini is much closer to the Indian Border and therefore about another ten degrees hotter. It is also suffering, like all of Nepal, from ...
- Chitwan National Park

Our drive that afternoon, to Chitwan National Park is thankfully on much straighter, roads. Now that we are out of the mountains and driving ...
- Back to Kathmandu and Nagarkot

17th May:
We get on the road early as the mountainous road between Chitwan and Kathmandu is closed each day between 11 am and 3pm ...