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THINGS TO DO
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Temple Day
(Sep 27 '06)
"It was one of those days that makes traveling several thousand miles to experience something new, absolutely worth it."
Hustle and Bustle
(Aug 29 '06)
"ate it in the local style, with their right hands (the left one is to wipe your butt with"
The bus we got from the border was falling apart, sometimes the driver couldn't get the door open, but we ...
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Climbing Mt. Everest
(Mar 30 '94)
Mt. Everest
March 30 - May 24 1994
I joined an International Mountain Climbing (IMC) expedition out of Germany for the climb up the Messner Couloir on the North side of Mt. Everest.
3-30-94 Wen. - ...
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Snakes alive!
(Mar 30 '07)
Namaste.
Let me start this one off with a plain old 'HOLY SHIT!'
I hadn't really thought abount what this place would be like. But the drive from the airport the the World Expeditions office was ...
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Funeral Pyres at Pashupatinath!
(Aug 09 '06)
Brilliantly red and orange flames devoured all things in its path, crackling and popping as it turned wood into embers and flesh into ashes. The scent of cinder wood barely masked the unforgettable ...
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Gai Jatra
(Aug 10 '06)
The festival of Gai Jatra is a time when families, who have lost a loved one during the past year, gather as a community and engage in a feverish procession as an attempt to exorcise the grief of ...
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Kathmandu - Capital of Ancient Himalayan Kindom
(Jun 24 '06)
"There were shrines, butter lamps, incense, bells and later some monks dressed in maroon robes"
Saturday 24th June 2006
Greetings from KTM, no longer the Royal Kingdom of Nepal, since the recent ...
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Food Poisoning in Kathmandu
(Nov 05 '06)
"He glugged giant pools of olive oil into his hands and then spread the cold oil in various key head-massage places on my scalp."
Where the streets have no name
(May 28 '01)
( Entry by Jessica)**I'm working on this slowly so it may be incomplete when you read it. Cut me some slack. check back later. :-)Indulge me. I'm going to take this oppportunity to once ...
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Back at Sewa Kendra with Doctor Predhan
(Sep 21 '07)
"I have never seen such trust and devotion be expressed through a single stroke of the hand to a cheek or deformed hand."
