NEPAL ITINERARY

Posted on April 8, 2014 by jipp

NEPAL ITINERARY

Day 1: 8 April 2014 (Tuesday)

  • KL – Kathmandu                                               11.50am-02.00pm        Air Asia
  • Check in                                                              Heritage Home (Thamel, Kathmandu)
  • Taking a walk around Thamel area

Day 2 : 9 April 2014  (Wednesday)

  • Kathmandu – Pokhara                                    Simrik Airlines
  • Pokhara – Nayapul                                          Mini Van
  • Nayapul – Chandruk                                       Trekking

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Day 3: 10 April 2014  (Thursday)

  • Chandruk – Chomrong                                   Trekking

Day 4: 11 April 2014 (Friday)

  • Chomrong – Himalaya                                   Trekking

Day 5: 12 April 2014 (Saturday)        

  • Himalaya – Annapurna Base Camp             Trekking

Day 6: 13 April 2014 (Sunday)    

  • Annapurna Base Camp – Sinuwa                Trekking

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Day 7: 14 April 2014  (Monday)  

  • Sinuwa – Gandruk                                          Trekking

Day 8: 15 April 2014 (Tuesday)   

  • Gandruk – Siwai                                             Trekking
  • Siwai – Nayapul – Pokhara                           Jeep

Day 9: 16 April 2014 (Wednesday)     

  • Around Pokhara
    • Pagoda of Peace                                      Hired Taxi
    • Devi’s Fall                                                 Hired Taxi
    • Gupteshwor Mahadev Cave                  Hired Taxi
    • International Mountain Museum         Hired Taxi
    • Shopping around Pokhara

Day 10: 17 April 2014 (Thursday)                   

  • Pokhara – Kathmandu                                     Simrik Airlines
  • Check in                                                             Heritage Home, Thamel, Kathmandu

Day 11: 18 April 2014 (Friday)  

  • Touring around Kathmandu                      Hired Taxi
    • Monkey Temple                                      Hired Taxi
    • Durbar Square                                        Hired Taxi
    • Baudhanath                                             Hired Taxi
    • Shree Pashupatinath Temple               Hired Taxi

Day 12: 19 April 2014 (Saturday)              

  • Shopping
  • Garden of Dreams
  • Kathmandu – KL                               08.45pm – 04.15am                         Air Asia
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Trekking Company that we hired. Look for Mr. GS for guide.

 

 

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Inlay : Cycling up to the Red Winery

Posted on March 22, 2014 by jipp

Inlay that I found out was far better organized in terms of basic facilities and infrastructure compared to Bagan. The reason being was probably the population there – which was far bigger and needed to be entertained more compared to Bagan which was more like a cluster of villages. Inlay is very much a farming district dominated by an expansive spread of countryside that stretches out along a beautiful valley.

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I stayed at a hotel called Remember Inn which was located very much within a walking distance from Inlay town and even the jetty to the Inle Lake. Quite true to its name, they wouldn’t let you leave without making sure that you have had the best of hospitality while staying there. They even let me use their shower room to shower after coming back from my tour to the lake so that I’d be all fresh before getting on the super long bus ride back to Yangon. Continue reading →

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Experiencing Mandalay Air

Posted on March 17, 2014 by jipp

It was an emotional moment for me when I had to bid farewell to the ancient city of Bagan. I really liked it and I wish I could stay there longer but then I didn’t want to miss Inlay – another place which is gaining more and more popularity among tourists to Myanmar nowadays. Due to limitation in time, I had to choose between Mandalay and Inlay but thinking that Mandalay was probably just another city – even more modern than Yangon that I was told – Inlay had to prevail in the end.

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Thinking of all the precious hours that I was going to waste if I took a bus, I decided to fish out a little bit of my hard-earned money over a flight ticket so that I could fly from Bagan to Inlay on a Mandalay Air. The flight was delayed due to heavy rain in Yangon – something that I had initially failed to apprehend the relevance of until it all came to me in a form of amusement. Continue reading →

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Oh BAGAN !

Posted on February 28, 2014 by jipp

Bagan that I found out was not really ready for the influx of tourists which have increased so significantly in number over the years. Budget hotels are still very much limited (and Bagan is not really into hostels unfortunately) so coming to Bagan without a pre-booked accommodation can be either fun or disastrous – depending on how you’d take it.

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If there was something that I’d learned from my visit to Bagan, it’d be to compromise on my needs and demands. I mean, a very lousy room might still make your some USD30 poorer overnight. Continue reading →

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Hello YANGON !

Posted on February 22, 2014 by jipp

So, another country has been ticked off the bucket list and that country is called Myanmar (previously called Burma). I was there not only as part of my mission to visit all the countries in South East Asia but there was something about the country that I found very alluring especially now that they have just opened their doors to the outside world.

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Opening their doors – yes – but they still seem to struggle in giving their trust to outsiders. Visas are still required to enter the country which is now fast becoming a tourist magnate in the region. I must be very stupid when I drove right over to their embassy in KL to apply for the visa only to be choked with hordes of people who were there to renew their working permits.

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Somebody in the crowd who was chewing betel (an early sign!) gave me a pamphlet showing the location of the tour company to which the application of all visas to Myanmar in Malaysia has been outsourced. With all the fusses of looking for a parking space around the embassy, I almost shouted in frustration when I found out that company was only a few LRT stations away from my office. Grrrr! Continue reading →

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