Well it has been an interesting week since our last entry. We spent most of the night in Bhaktapur throwing up. This is not the first time that the hotel has had problems with food poisoning, and now their contract is under review. We had to leave very early the next morning to go white water rafting, just the thing you need when you are feeling ill. Never the less 24 hours of 'nil by mouth' and the next day we were as right as rain. A good job as the rest of ou...

We are on a treking tour. It is a very small group, only 5 of us; Amy from Orgegon and two journalists from London; Simon and Tamara. The first day we visited the big Hindu temple in Kathmandu, as it was to be Shiva's birthday the next day (an important hindu god) many people had travelled for extra blessings the next day. The place was heaving with Sadhu (holy men); some were genuine, some were high and some were 'professional' and wanted to bless us for money....

We arrived in Kathmandu last Friday. It is less crowded than India and feels calmer. We have been relaxing, doing laundry and generally mooching around. There are many shops selling colourful hippy type clothes, it is apparent that they had lots of western visitors in the sixties, Eric had not taken two steps out of our hotel on the first morning before he was offered 'good smoke/hash', and we have had the same offers everyday since. The Kathmandu Guest House is...