Posted in India on Oct 31st, 2007 No Comments »
We felt a great sense of relief as we were dropped off at Tribhuvan “International” airport by our Nepali guide and were back on our own and on our way to Delhi. I put international in quotes because this airport isn’t a hub that is ever really used on the way to other international [...]
Posted in Nepal on Oct 29th, 2007 2 Comments »
As quickly as we descended from Everest base camp (5200 meters) to Zhang Mu (2500 meters) in a day, we found ourselves nearly at sea level in about another day. The shock of crossing the border from China into Nepal was just about as drastic.
Our drive to Zhang Mu from Nyalam was exciting as [...]
Posted in Travel on Oct 21st, 2007 No Comments »
We are now in Kathmandu, Nepal and have a ton of great photos and interesting stories to tell, but we have limited time and may not be able to get onto the internet for a few days as we are flying off into the jungle in Chitwan National Park today. We will post again [...]
Posted in Tibet on Oct 20th, 2007 2 Comments »
So we have just descended from the cold, arid altitude of the Tibetan plateau to the warm, humid lowlands of Nepal and I will follow up with a post about the whole border crossing from Zhang Mu into Nepal, but I wanted to just post a couple parting thoughts on the Tibetan leg of our [...]
Posted in Tibet on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
We woke up today at the foot of Mt. Everest (Qomolangma in Tibetan, mother of all mountains) after an amazing couple of days. We are still in our Land Cruisers and the road up to Everest was pretty crazy, but the road down has been even better/worse depending on your point of view.
But I’m [...]