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And so, here we are. The last blog, and 29th, of the trip! Although we have several days to cover, this will be a bit of a short one for several reasons. Firstly, we only have an hour and a half to write it and upload it before we head off for dinner and then…

After our ten days in the historic Kathmandu valley areas of Patan and Bhaktapur, we had booked to stay three nights in Budhanilkantha. Budhanilkantha is tucked up beneath the northern foothills surrounding the valley, which stretches east to west. We were staying in a glamping style tent in Shivapuri Heights, one of our more expensive…

By Monday, it was time for us to leave Patan and head towards Bhaktapur, another district within the Kathmandu valley to the east of the city centre. We had three nights booked in Shiva Guest House, and in this blog we will cover our arrival in Bhaktapur as well as the two full days we…

Friday –  When we woke in Namaste guesthouse, the storm of the previous night had passed and it was a beautiful blue morning sky. We ordered our breakfast from Prem – I (Rob) obviously opting for the large option including eggs, potatoes, buffalo sausage, and tomatoes – who brought it up to our room along…

Tuesday – We had chosen our breakfast the night before at Newa Chen, and when we came downstairs were shown to a little low table with cushions to sit on in the hotel’s garden. We were the only guests for the first two nights, and the hotel had a slight air (as so many places…

We still had two full days in Pokhara left before we headed back to the Kathmandu valley, and we were in full swing of making the most of the time we had. In this blog, we will cover those two full days as well as the travel day between Pokhara and our next stop in…

We have kept ourselves very busy in Pokhara over the last week or so, so it is only now when we are on our way back to Kathmandu valley that we’ve found time to write the blogs of our time there. Just for ease of reading, we will divide them into two blogs covering the…

We are back in the real world after our six day silent retreat. It doesn’t seem quite right or possible to give a blow-by-blow chronological account of our time there like we have done for the rest of the blog. However, we thought we could give an overview of the schedule, an idea of some…

After our short stay in Kalimpong, it was time to leave India and make the journey into Nepal. As I have mentioned previously, we had intended to cross the border by land at Panitanki in the East then fly from there to Kathmandu. However, the border has been closed to tourists since COVID, so we…

Although the previous blog may sound a little like a catalogue of misfortunes, we had rather enjoyed Darjeeling in many ways, especially our first evening and full day there. It was, however, exceptionally damp (I think even more so than usual, and by the sounds of things it’s normally pretty damp anyway). Next we were…