In the middle of our time in India we headed up to Nepal. The pace of India was so hectic that we ended up there early boy was it a welcome change! Clean air! Clean streets! Healthy dogs!. But, not all was rosy in Shangri-La. Along with amazing scenery, fresh air and friendly people we had to contend with little electricity and political unrest. Our time in Nepal was really just one big adventure activity after another, so here goes...Adventure Activity #1: Trekk...

Before I apologize for not updating the blog for 2 months, let me just say WE LOVE INDIA.It appears my talent for procrastination has stayed with me even when I have nothing else to do.But the truth is, our time in India has been such a collection of random, fleeting experiences that it has been hard to summarize and, up until our return here after Nepal last week I'm not sure we would have been able to make such an unequivocal statement.You see, India isn't easy...

So we've managed to survive a week in India. Hooray! I won't be so bold as to say it has been easy since that might come back to haunt me in the upcoming weeks. HOWEVER, we are learning that if you psyche yourself up for something to be terrible, pleasant surprises await. We arrived in Mumbai late at night to find an airport full of chaos. It took us an hour to get our bags, and between our three "taxi drivers", the women begging through the win...

THE SOUTH EAST ASIA REPORT Since we are now in India, it is hard to think back to a time when people were not trying to sell us something every two seconds. Oh, wait, that happened in SE Asia too. So, I am going to try to do a quick run down of our adventures for the first two weeks in January... After a number of teary goodbyes we left New Zealand stuffed full of turkey and ready to begin our adventure. Singapore was a great warm-up - clean, organised and real...