And On The Seventh Day… We Rested

After we arrived from the Annapurna hike we could not resist to walk even more! the lake was beautiful so we walked around until we found a nice restaurant to eat our first real meal. Eitan got a nice real steak and Sarah was happy with a glass of wine. We continued our walk around…

Annapurna Trekking Part #2: The Climb To Poon Hill

So now for the second half of our trek….2 days of hiking is needed to get to Ghorepani, from here you can climb 3210 m to Poon Hill which is suppose to offer amazing views of the whole Annapurna mountain range. Unfortunately, after waking up at 4:00 am, the weather was terrible so we knew…

Annapurna Trekking Part #1: Nayapul to Ghorepani.

We arrived in Kathmandu and got picked up at the airport by the trekking tour agency owner. He was extremely nice and gave us some flower necklaces like in Hawaii (we still don’t know why). We drove to the office so we can pay for the trekking tour and got some shirts as gifts. Finally…

Earthquake

This post is going to be short, basically the last day in Kathmandu before we fly into Tibet. We will come back to Nepal after to continue our adventure. Today is our last day in Kathmandu before we fly into Lhasa, we found out there is a citywide public transportation strike going on today, so no…

The Kathmandu Valley

Fun Fact: Nepal does not have an independent day because Nepal was never colonized. Nepal is also the oldest country in South Asia. We decided to make a full day trip today to other cities in the Kathmandu Valley, we are going too Bhaktapur and Nagarkot, these places are about one hour driving from Kathamndu so…

That Weird Flag!

2:00 am and Eitan woke up to an earthquake, he made a huge mistake and immediately woke up Sarah; she is so afraid of earthquakes she started to panic given we were in Nepal and the buildings here are not built with the same standards as the U.S; You could here tourists running down the…

Welcome To Nepal

Today we woke up at 3am for our early flight to Kathmandu.  The day we were expecting finally arrived and we officially survived India!  We even got to squeeze in an early morning lounge breakfast before our flight.  The airport in Kathmandu felt calm and old.  We had heard it would be a complicated process…