Another Nepal thread

[Rondelli]

There seems to be plenty Annapurna / Muktinath tours on the go at the moment so I might as well share our story of my wife and I on our recent trip around Nepal. For the first time ever we did it as an organised tour, Royal Enfield 500’s (Fuel injected) . We had a guide a mechanic and our gear was stowed in a back up car. I quickly realised that the guided tour thing wasn’t one of our best ideas, our Indian guide was knowledgeable but managed to get lost a few times ( I can do that without paying someone else to do it for me) The accommodation was generally good but in the Himalayas off the beaten track very basic which is what we expected. The tour had 12 of us, 11 guys and my wife so it was a bit of a pissing competition at times and that and the guide being a tad random meant we put our safety in a riskier place than i would have liked normally. That said it was a great experience and certainly an adventure.
As always pictures tell the story better. We left from Khathmandu and rode to the Chitwan national park, then to Tansen and Pokhara before going up into the Himalayas to Muktinath (where Buda was born allegedly) returning to Pokhara and back to Khathmandu via a different route. The difficulty level was billed as demanding and they weren’t exaggerating. Food was curry of some shape or form most of the time which wears down my western digestion system quickly (and my ass!) . I’ll let the photos do the talking.

We spent two weeks on the road, arrived back at the end of May and unless you want a real challenge thats the touring season over until October due to the rainy season

Khathmandu, crazy driving, polluted and interesting




Peace

Fi still smiling after escape from Khathmandu

Helping the locals carry a load

Fuel pump replacement on my bike then on a French bike 5 minutes later!

Some of this

Some of that

Barren the higher you get

At Muktinath 3700M

The end of a hard day!