October 28th, 2019 This is the day after Diwali and the fireworks are still going off, and certain interesting things are still happening. I went downstairs this morning and there was a lady making things that looked like gingerbread men out of cow poop and placing them outside the steps of the hostel. She was…
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Day 263 – Pushkar, India
October 27th, 2019 Happy Diwali! Today is the official main day of this important Indian festival. Everyone goes around saying “Happy Diwali” no matter who you are, what your skin color is or what language you speak. Everyone just seems happy that it is Diwali. According to Wikipedia and a 2011 census, about 80% of…
Day 262 – Jaipur, India
October 26th, 2019 Today we got up and I mapped out some of the city highlights we wanted to see for the day. The easiest way to get around turned out to hire a tuk tuk to take us to all the sites. One of our new friends from last night wanted to join us…
Day 261 – Jaipur, India
October 25th, 2019 Today we got up and took an Uber to the bus station. We left our big luggage at our hostel in Delhi and packed smaller bags to take with us for the week. I think Delhi is the most populated city we have been to with 18 million people. When we got…
Day 260 – Delhi, India
October 24th, 2019 There is a popular route called the Golden Triangle that covers several of the highlights through Rajasthan. It starts by going to Agra where the Taj Mahal is. This was our plan until we realized the Taj is closed on Fridays. Since we have limited days here in India we didn’t want…
Day 259 – Delhi, India
October 23rd, 2019 As some of you know, India has never really been that high on my travel priority list, or even on the list at all. I thought if I ended up in India it would definitely be in the Himalayas somewhere. One of the amazing things about this trip is that it has…
Days 256-258, Last Days in Nepal and Final Thoughts
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…
Day 255 – Bandipur, Nepal
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…
Day 254 – Chitwan National Park, Nepal
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…
Day 253 – Chitwan National Park, Nepal
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…