Travel

  • Pdf file of travels in Nepal

    I uploaded a Pdf compiling all the tales from Nepal to make downloading easier for all those that requested it i.e. my mum 馃檪 It’s available here

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  • Planes, elephant judo and shooting stars

    The flight from Jomsom on Shangrila Air is due to leave at 10 am. But as I sit in the airport, I am willing it to be delayed. I don’t feel ready to leave this wondrous place. All I can do is close my eyes and think back to the previous evening. Back to the

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  • Final day: Kagbeni to Muktinath

    Normally I am droopy eyed and senseless in the mornings but the views from the sun room at the top of the aptly named Niligri View guesthouse have roused me from my usual sloth and I am wide awake. Is there any better start to a day than to sit in the warmth of the

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  • Marpha to Kagbeni

    We leave Marpha the next morning under a slate grey sky that is heavy and strangely silent. Pulling out of town we pass a set of prayer wheels. The coloured prayer flags are ragged and faded and they flutter forlornly in the air. For some reason I am transfixed by them but as I stop

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  • Tukuche to Marpha

    It’s best to leave Tukuche in the morning before the wind picks up (some time around eleven). Blowing in through the Annapurnas and Dhaulagiri, it sends a fine mist of grey, grainy dust swirling around you. Going in this direction isn’t so bad, as you have the wind in your back. Those coming in from

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