NEPAL

Location - Asia/Indian Subcontinent; Capital - Kathmandu; Population - 29 million; Currency - Nepal Rupee

I crossed from Darjeeling in to Eastern Nepal, around March 1993.

5 Nepalese Rupees

Stalls in Durbar Square, Kathmandu

Buddhist temples in Durbar Square, Kathmandu

Bustling Durbar Square (or chaotic - you choose), Kathmandu

Durbar Square, Kathmandu

Entrepreneurs selling coins at Durbar Square, Kathmandu

Durbar Square, Kathmandu

A different Durbar Square, this time at Bhaktapur, in the Kathmandu Valley

Swayambhunath Temple at Swayambhunath, also in the Kathmandu Valley

The Kathmandu Valley

One of my classes at VS Niketan Boarding Shool, Kathmandu. I helped out as an English teacher for a couple of weeks.

The pupils were fantastic - well worth the 40 pence an hour I earned.

A Pokhara street

Phewa Lake in Pokhara

Starting out on a trek from Pokhara through the Himalayas

Surrounding countryside on the Jomsom trek in the Himalayas

Trekking to the Himalayan village of Ghorapani (altitude - 2800 metres)

At the top of Poon Hill (altitude - 3200 metres) with magnificent views of the Annapurna range, including Machhapuchhare

Machhapuchhare (6993 metres) is second from the left

One of the Annapurna mountains, most of which are around the 7500 to 8000 metre mark

Dhaulagiri is the prominant mountain here. It's the 7th highest mountain in the World at 8167 metres

Morning view at Ghandruk

The most comfortable way to travel - on the roof of a bus from Pokhara to the Indian border

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