Author: Shanti

October 20th – 22nd, 2019 We rode the scooter back to Pokhara and had a day and a half to relax before taking the long bus ride back to Kathmandu for our next flight.  This is our third time in Pokhara during this trip so it felt more like home than anywhere else in the…

October 19th, 2019 We got up early not wanting to spend any more time in the bug room.  Plus, we learned riding early in the morning was our favorite time.  Our next and last stop before going back to Pokhara was a town called Bandipur.  It is between Pokhara and Kathmandu and is supposed to…

October 18th, 2019 Last night we once again got completely eaten up by mosquitos even though we had a mosquito net and I was in my bug repellant sleeping bag liner.  I think it has lost all of its bug repelling properties as all night mosquitos were just biting me right through it.  We got…

We got up very early after not being able to sleep from all the bugs.  Not wanting to stay in the mosquito room any longer, we hit the road just after sunrise and decided to stop for breakfast later on down the road. It was actually super nice driving at this time of day because…

October 16th, 2019 We got up early after not sleeping and hit the road for Lumbini.  We tried to eat breakfast at the hotel but that didn’t really work out.  I ordered “cheese toast” because I thought that sounded pretty straight forward but I was wrong.  What came out was untoasted white bread with some…

October 15th, 2019 Today we got to sleep in again before we packed our stuff for the motorbike trip (little did we know this would be our last good sleep until we returned back to Pokhara).  The guy dropped off the bike at 10am but then changed the price we had agreed on the day…

October 14th, 2019 Today we slept in as we were finally someplace comfortable enough to do so.  We took today to chill out and rest from the trek.  Last night we went back to the restaurant that had the amazing dal makhani dish and I had an apple cider to celebrate being done with the…

September 30th – October 13th, 2019 Over these 14 days we hiked 106 miles on the Annapurna Circuit including a two-day side trek to Tilicho Lake (the biggest, highest mountain lake in the world!).  We crossed over Thorong La Pass which was the highest we have ever been at 17,776 feet.  Very few of the…

September 28th-29th, 2019 We packed up our stuff and took the early 6am bus out of Kathmandu to Pokhara.  The distance is only 120 miles between the two places, but it took us over 10 hours on the bus.  It seems there is one road that winds around the mountains and I had never seen…

September 27th, 2019 Today when we woke up, we heard some American voices outside on the rooftop patio of our hotel.  They were going through all their gear and we could tell from their conversation they were getting ready to do something big.  I went outside to check it out and they had an incredible…