1st country over! - time is flying past so fast. We really enjoyed our time in Nepal - it is a beautiful country with the most amazing scenery and warm hearted people. But it is very disparate and changing fast - albeit different parts at different rates - from the remote villages in the Foothills to crazy Kathmandu and partying in Pokhara. We also found it a pretty unsettled country at the moment with strikes, protests and effigy burning happening quite a bit, which seems to be due to disillusionment with the current Maoist government. But hopefully they will find a peaceful way forward as Nepal has so much to offer. Although, it does this at a cost and we found it a bit tough on the purse strings (at least compared to India). Saying that we did get the chance to do things we've never done before and we have lots of great memories.
We also think we may have made it into the Guiness Book of Records while in Nepal! Lets just say its not easy to get around fast as those pesky hills get in the way, and we spent "the most time on a bus with the shortest distance travelled" - we turned a 6 hour journey into 14 with the help of a broken crankshaft, landslide and traffic jam!
Anyway, we are back in India for the next couple of weeks (currently in Darjeeling sipping tea and eating cake!). Although true to form within 24 hours of being back we've had dodgy stomachs - good to see we've built up a bit of resistance!
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