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Hey all!! Hope ur all keeping well and out of mischief!

Well, after Kerala we headed to Goa - more sunshine, sea and sand....yippeeee....

We stayed in Calungate, and made the most of the beach which was just around the corner from where we were staying.

THeres little to talk about as this was the typical beach holiday where we did little. Nisha got bored of it after the first day and couldnt wait to move on but even she had to admit the beach was lovely.

It was off season but thats ok, it was nice all the same, we spent our time eating melted ice cream and street food. yummmm.

We are now in Mumbai, the last leg of our adventure. Were staying in Colaba - and have spent the last few days SHOPPING!!! lol yayyyyyyyyyy

We are well and truly skint - no scratch that, were in debt most likely. (mostly to our parents -east installments shall hopefully work) Were bought loads of odds and ends and loads of quality gear as well, like a few Levi's jeans - cost a third of what they cost back home from reputed LEvi's stores may we add before those cynics amongst you try and even say they're probably fake. so thereeee lol

Apart from that, we have 2/3 days left here in Mumbai and indeed INdia. So needless to say this is our last blog before coming home!

We dont actually want to come back, but we are fast running out of money...what can u do? Well miss this place, 7 weeks went seriously fast!! who would have thought...its been memorable - we cant wait to show you all our pictures, were well impressed with what weve achieved in 7 weeks and were sure youll think the same when u see them! :p

N and D
Be back on the 18th!! just dont call us on that day - we shall be sleeping - or getting told off (BIG TIME) by our parents for buying loads of stuff.
Either way, just dont do it. lol

xx

We were booked into a hotel in Delhi by the Tourism Department. We had decided we didnt want to go back to the rat trap we had stayed in before we left for Nepal. No way were we going back there. Nothing to do around there!

Everything was going smoothly when all of a sudden we saw the rat trap hotel approach, we looked at it and thought thank god we arent staying there...then the taxi driver stopped RIGHT outside the place. We just looked at each other and turned to the taxi driver and said NO, that aint right - this isnt our hotel! Funny thing was, we didnt actually check which hotel we were booked into lol. Nisha took out the reciept and it thankfully wasnt the same joint, but one of its sister hotels - a little more up market...PHEW! wed paid more money this time as well lol. It could only happen to us...lucky escape.

We left for Bangalore early the next day., relieved to get out od Delhi.

Bangalore weather seemed quite nice , not too hot at all. It started to rain in INdia now - we think it followed us back from Nepal. Its not even monsoon season! Why? Its good in that it only rains late into the night and the days are extremely dry so I guess its not all bad.

All weve been doing in Bangalore is hitting Pizza huts, and shopping malls and weve watched 2 movies in the space of 3 days lol. Tomorrow we're doing some touristy stuff, vi siting Lalbagh, the JN planetarim, temples and Tipu's Palace before we head off to Kerala.

Oh, we bought permanent contact lens for 20 quid. BARGAIN...

We cant wait to get to Kerala in a few days - at least well be back to doing cool stuff there.

There, weve updated u on the last 3 weeks.

We spent our last days in Kathmandu shopping. We bought some churidars and some pretty sarees - they were SO CHEAP!! Yay.

We did very little about taking it easy in Thamel and Durbar Sqaure. We bought some really good stuff.

We made some friends and met some weirdos, which youll hear about when we get back.

We left for Horrible Delhi on 16th April 2007. We were serioulsy sad about leaving Nepal - we could quite easily have spent our whole holiday there - maybe do a trek or two -ah well theres always next time!!

The people were extremely nice and the kids so cute. We were going to miss them. Nisha was going to miss being being called Nepali (awww) and I (dips) was so proud to refer to her as my Nepali lil friend!!! :D DIps was just another foreigner tourist mind u lol Which was good cos we got treated well both ways where ever we went. :p

Au revoir Nepal !

We had to wake up at 3am this morning as we were going to make a trip up to Sarangkot to see the Sunrise. For those who have little faith in our ability to wake up - (More so Dipti) we did wake up on time

The sunrise was magnificent, but given the early morning haze, we were not able to see the sun hit the Annapurna range - a sight we're told is one to remember. Ah well, it was still really coolllll.

Our driver was a great laugh and actually made it fun climbing up the Hill at 4 in the morning.

Later we headed on our 7 hour journey (by manky coach once more) down to Chitwan National Park where we would be spending the next 3 days amidst the nature - we hope we wont have to rough it too much...

Our lodge was in fact a pretty decent Hotel -not a insect (except mozzies) in sight. At least not in our room anyway.

We were going to spend the next few days as a part of a group. We had some really cool people who we got to know during our time here.

That night we went on a Tharu Village tour and were supposed to have witnessed the sunset over the marshes, but it started to rain adn thunder (suprise suprise lol) which was fun anyway, we got shleter under a hut and were content once we got our mango juices. lol mmmmmmmmmmmm

Next day we went our a canoe ride through the Rapati river and then on to walk through the Jungle. We saw Monkeys, huge red and black insects (often running the risk of them falling onto your heads as u brushed past the branches and twigs over our heads). We saw more insects - oh did we mention more insects - oh a lot of butterflies and birds. No tigers, leopards or rhinos at this stage - no crocodiles either... OH well, we were lucky enough to have been shown a presentation complete with pictures last night so we didnt feel like wed missed much (plz note the sarcasm in the previous sentence) .

Later on the day we had our elephant ride through the jungle - which was fantastic because we got to see elephants, rhinos and deers. WE got whacked by overhanging branches A LOT. Oh Dips got elephant pee splattered on her when our elephant did his business LOL. I told her im sure it would do her skin some good lol...

We then went to a elephant breeding farm, where our guide let two baby elephants loose on us, lol they thought we had food so they chased us til we let them smell our hands lol.

In the evening we saw a Tharu Culture Show were we nearly peed our pants from laughing to much (though we were the only two laughing we think). In the end there was a dance which the audience could go and join. We didnt join in, ( too busy laughing at others) but Chris from our group went up and once again we laughed so hard it hurt. We should mention he was a 6ft4 austrailian dude in contrast to the 5 ft 4 Nepali guys - it was hilarious.

The next day we left Chitwan, we were sad to leave Oh well, another 7 hours ride before we get to Kathmandu...

Hey all,

Weleft for Kathmandu on 7th April and we havent had a chance to update our blog so here goes...

WE left our hole in the wall hotel in Delhi and got to the airport to catch our flight to Nepal -we had our first drama of the trip, our tickets werent confirmed and despite having forked over 120quid back home for the tickets, we had to give 100 for a one way ticket as they cancelled our ticket to Kathmandu...GRRRR were skint now...

We arrived at Kathmandu airport, glad to have actually got there without any further problems. Our tour organiser Hari met us at the airport and we were relieved that he wasnt a weirdo (like our last driver- more on that in person...) but genuinely extremely lovely. We were greeted with garlands!! too funnyyyyy...

Our hotel was amazing and we knew from the moment we got in the car that we were going to love it in Nepal.

That night we went walking around the streets of Thamel - one of the liveliest places weve been as yet , we did get a little lost as all the streets look alike and as it was raining we got drenched. THe experience was quite surreal as it started thundering and lightening but made our night there all the more special - its not usual for it to start raining so early - typical huh?

The next day we went sight seeing with our driver and guide who showed us places like pashupathinath, boudhnath, bhaktapur ( lovely self-contained ancient city with lots of handicrafts) and the Monkey Temple. Our camera ran out of battery by the time we got the the monkey temple, which exhibited the best overview of the whole of kathmandu. It was simply breathtaking.

We really enjoyed our time in Kathmandui and couldnt wait to come back at the end because the people are so lovely and make visiting the country a memorable one. The kids are sooo darn cute!!

Nisha felt a little like a giant as all the guys are 5ft 4 and under even the good looking ones...lol, and trust me Nepal does have talent! Ur missing out girls lol :p

We leave for Pokhara tomorrow, its a 7 hour journey by road. Its supposed to host some of the best views of the Annapurna range from a distance...cant wait.

More later....

N and D