Chittwan National Park

Hello all

I have just made it home at this point, but I still wanted to share some adventures of chittwan NP (our last stop on our tour) and then I'll start posting the Everest journey.

chittwan was very cool. Many of you know that I have a love of elephants and this park allows you to do elephant safaris and even an elephant bath!

We saw barking deer, spotted deer, wild pigs and chickens, rhinos and even a wild asparagus plant! We stayed on an island in the park itself and due to the 40 + degrees celcius, for the most part we were two of 4 people at the resort. A shout out to John from Scotland and Alex from Germany for being two of the most fun people to be stranded on a island with - we had a hoot!

I do have to say though that nothing topped the elephant bath, not sure who got the bath... but that's ok!

this funky town

Namaste

Still in Katmandu, which is one very cool place. "funky" is the only term I can really think of to describe it. The rooftop scape is quite interesting. There is a dog who likes to sit with his front paws hanging over the edge of a roof and bark at the passersby below on the street. May be a bit intimidating if it wasn't 5 stories up.

Yesterday we went and saw the palace. Only 4 years ago, nepal was still a kingdom, today it's a democracy and they've opened up the palace as a museum. It was quite interesting , the royal family had had a rather troubled past within the last decade, which actually resulted in a shooting spree by the kings brother. Quite a troubled family history... put an interesting museum.

Also found a "secret garden" which was absolutely beautiful. Spent some time relaxing with a drink in the garden.

Tomorrow we're off to Chitwan national park to do an elephant safari and have a good time.

More later...

We're back...

Hello all

We've returned from everest and are happy to say we're still in one piece!

Turns out Sandy and I are quite fast and we did the trek in less time than expected so we're back in Katmandu a couple of days early. We had a great time, although it was unseasonably cold (we were in snow for over a week) maybe that was what kept us moving...

As I know many of you were really interested in this leg of the journey aNd i couldn't access interent, i did something different... As i head home a week today, what I did was record video updates each day of the trek, so you can live it along with me. i'll start uploading those when i get home. So what i'll do is continue with my regular updates as they happen, and then when i get home you can enjoy the Everest section of the trip. Sound good?

I'll just warn you - 3 weeks, 2 showers.... need I say more? It ain't pretty, but what an adventure.

So for the next few days I'll be in katmandu, if anyone has heard about the riots that took place, don't worry they're not near the tourist areas.

Until later

Namaste