Jean-Paul started a journey, a world travel in 2003. It was for the adventure and I'd hoped some where along the way I would find some soul related answers. I followed the yellow brick road you could say, and I met many characters along it.... Some of them have even left messages on this website. You can too.
And the journey became longer than expected. You can see this in my Archives.
Yet somewhere along the way I lost that 'yellow brick road', but in essence I am still on that journey.
This website is about my travel, in all its aspects. A World travel with an Inner travel. The story of the walk.
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[Back in Kathmandu - Nepal]I choose to fly back to Nepal (10th June) only so I could maximise my short visa stay in Tibet. Turns out only Air China fly's international routes out of Lhasa, and only to Kathmandu, 4 times a week. Devoid of competition they can charge what they like... so they do!
But somehow it was worth is as half way through the flight the pilot announced we would be flying south of Mt Everest, passing it on our right. (I wondered why only 4 people, including myself, were sitting on the left hand side of the plane. It also never even occurred to me that I could be seeing Everest on this flight.)Stunningly breaking through the cloud cover base, I could see the east, south and west faces. Majestically blue and white in the shinning sun. I was surprised to see that Everest has 2 distinct peaks and the base of the mountain (at least the parts above the cloud cover) is allot wider than I imagined. I passed the north-ish face on my overland trip to Tibet, so in my own odd way I have rounded Everest in the Buddhist traditional clockwise fashion (Kora).
Kathmandu is comfortable, easy going as ever. Certainly allot warmer and humid than Lhasa, but the lower attitude here makes it easier to sleep and my skin doesnt itch from the dry Tibetan air. Still I miss Lhasa... In fact I felt heartbroken when I left. I cant ever remember feeling this way about a country, not even when I left my homeland (Australia) in 1998.
This time its a short visit (my first time in Nepal in 2004 I staid 3 months) and only because I need to organise a new visa for India. With no real plan, I will just leisure around and probably re-visit some of the sites in the city again.
On 20th June I fly to Deli, and as luck will have it, Shael will already be waiting for me at the airport, as she arrives from Amsterdam in the morning. We plan to spend many months together in India. :-)
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