I’m off for a short walk in the Annapurna region
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olaf
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October 22, 2015
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Nepal
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City
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Tomorrow I’ll start the Annapurna circuit, a tea house trek from village to village enjoying the views and the energy of the mighty peaks around me. What helped me preparing the trip were the following pages: http://wikitravel.org/en/Annapurna_Circuit http://wanderingsasquatch.com/how-to-hike-the-annapurna-circuit/ Talk to you in a bit, i’ll take my time though!
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Parahawking – a once in a lifetime flight
Parahawking combines falconry and paragliding, you actually got to feed the bird in the sky.
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A short ride to Bengas Tal and around
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olaf
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October 16, 2015
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Nepal
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Bike, City, Mountains, Rain
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After a brilliant get together with takeshi from japan, whom i met in varanassi the first time, colin from great britain and mat from new zealand who stay also at our lovely gauri shankar guesthouse (cheers for the philosophical evening guys!!!) and hugo, a french guy just coming back from the trek we decided to go by bike to the …
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World Peace Pagoda
I made friends with Matthew a kiwi from new plymouth in lovely aotearoa, we got on quite well and took a hike up the hill to the worlds peace pagoda. Anyone interested in more info about the stupa, follow the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanti_Stupa,_Pokhara First we got a boat to the start of the trail and managed to climb the steep hill in under …
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Sarangkot and around Pokhara
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olaf
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October 14, 2015
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Nepal
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Mountains
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The next morning my new nepali friend took me up sarangkot. the sunrise lookout 30 min from town is up 1.600m and on clear sky’s your able to see the beautiful panorama of the + 7.000 m mountains thrown magically over the city. There was no clear sky that day but the lookout still was amazing. We went to the …
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Pokhara – a tranquil backpacker oasis
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olaf
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October 13, 2015
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Nepal
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City
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First day i went for a short stroll around town, i got lost as i was walking in a completely wrong direction, but i managed to get a new phone charger, first stop for it was a bit of a misunderstanding as the man invited me in his home on my question for a charger and connected my phone afterwards serving …
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Indian buses and the nepali petrol run
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olaf
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October 12, 2015
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India, Nepal
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Bus
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From gorakhpur i took a local bus to sunauli, the town at the border to nepal, ride was supposed to take 3 hours, but as it happens with local buses, they leave when full, so all seats are taken and a couple of people standing in the aisle when we left and the bus will stop every minute or two …
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Gorakhpur – dirty ol’ town
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olaf
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October 11, 2015
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India
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City
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So I went with a train from varanassi to gorakhpur in the afternoon and arrived late at night, the town is mainly a transportation hub, not that much to see and it also felt like that when i got off the train, hundreds of people laying on the ground just in and near the train station waiting for their train as …
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Varanassi and Kashi Vishwanath
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olaf
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October 11, 2015
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India
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Temple
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the city is devoted to shiva the hindu god of destruction, but destruction also means recreation, a lot of temples can be found devoted to several gods in hindu mythology, hanuman, ganesha, brahma, vishnu, parvati, all can be found here within a minutes walk. but the main pilgrimage temple is “Kashi Vishwanath”, if you wanna know more about it’s history …
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i got run over by a cow!!!
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olaf
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October 9, 2015
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India
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Anecdotes
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as i was just making my way to the market through the narrow lanes as it happened a motorcycle was parked to the right at a wall of a house, a cow just made it’s way towards me, leaving no space in between the wall of the opposite house, so we’re talking 1,50 m width of the small alley. when …
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Amazing pics
Sunrise and sunsets are probably the best-est of times to explore Hampi. It looks like a veritable lost world and…
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