The following is a continuation of Part 1:  Kathmandu to Gorkha. We left Kathmandu and the Vajra Hotel in a large passenger van on a drive to the city of Gorkha.  Once in Gorkha, we met a surprise Maoist protest that shut down the road leading to our trail head.  This doesn’t mean we waited […]

We saw Everest for the first time from our Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to Kathmandu.  After departing Bangkok, we traveled northwest along the cost of Myanmar and began going overland as soon as we reached the northern-most part of the Bay of Bengal, which touches Myanmar, Bangladesh and India.  Our trajectory took us over […]