Never ever give up: Himalayan Vistas

Still travelling. Am following husband's example by booking walking holidays with the same company. Our last together was in 2019 to the south coast of Italy and then we'd booked NI to walk the glens. now I’m going further than Europe. I had a gap in work in November so I booked 13 nights in Nepal. The trip involved four sites:

first fly into Kathmandu and then drive to Bhaktapur, the former capital city for a couple of days sight seeing. We visited Bhaktapur durbur square - you have to pay to get into the old town if you're a foreigner.

Next, we headed to the lowlands and Chitwan National Park to see rhino and crocodiles and a lot of birds. We travelled by boat, on foot through the jungle and in a jeep. After three days there, we went to Pokhara where we stayed in the best hotel - grand breakfasts. We went on a boat trip across Fewa lake, we visited a Tibetan camp and made momos. we walked round the lake in the evening. We shopped. I had a reflexology massage.

Pokhara, like Katmandu is a bit polluted and it was a relief to have a couple of days in the hill village of Bandipur, where the first evening, we walked out with the rest of the population round the football field to see the views of the Annapurna range.

Finally, in our mini bus, we drove the 90 km back to Katmandu. It took about seven hours because the roads are so bad after the monsoon landslides in September. But no road was closed. At Katmandu, we visited Durbur square, and also went to see the Boudhanath stupa, which has big blue eyes on all four directions. On the last night, we had dinner in Thamel, with Nepali spirit served and traditional Nepali dancing.

We flew with Qatar airlines. The journeys there and back were between 11 and 13 hours long, depending how long the transit time in Doha was. Jet lag wasn't allowed when we got there because there was so much to do, but when I got home again, I couldn't and wouldn't do anything in the evening for five or six days, allowing a day to catch up each hour's difference, and Nepal is five hours 45 minutes ahead of us.

Bhaktapur

Typtical Nepali thali

On our first walk - the Annapurna Mountain range just began to appear.

Peacock on the wall of a stupa in Bhaktapur

Chitwan National Park

Travelling in our mini bus from Bhaktapur to Chitwan,
we saw this procession.
Something to do with a new moon

Eight of us on the trip

First sighting of a rhino near the river in Chitwan national park

We went crocodile seeking from a canoe in the river

Crocodile at Chitwan national park

They conserve crocodiles and
here are two year olds being nurtured until they're big enough to release.

Another day we walked up the hill to this waterfall.
We had to cross the stream six times.

Half way up we met the local mayor and mayoress who were checking local facilities.

At Pokara, we got in one of these boats to visit an island in the lake first, and then to the other side to see a stupa and have coffee before being bussed back.The lake is man made.