This are all the photos up to now.. on topp, uptodate..

                                                    Nepalese wiring and telephone cable

                                          Nepalese people must be really small.

                                          Just a few motorbikes.

                                                       Fridge delivery.  

                                                        We climbed above this waterfall.

                                          Annd we crossed this.

                                         Elise got to see a cherry blossom tree.

                                           Tried to get a free ride.

                                          Just a few boats in the malaka straight.  

                                           Football pitch in the marina.

                                            Elsies favourite sign.

                                              Can you spot me?

                                           you go Bhu

                                          They where having so much fun with us

                                          Still in love after a month on the road

                                                 She's dancing like that

                                          There are over 200 elephans working here, last year one went crazy, and killed his owner.

                                          We ate from there

                                          He really wanted his job back

                                            Stewarts making a wish

                                           Elise is making a wish

                                          Someone gave all the kids candy, she stole from the other kids

                                                       Who is most scared, the lady or Linda

                                                             Just like the Indians when going to the toilet

                                             .............this is clean

                                           She's doing the dishes

                                           She's drying

                                            Don't wanne get wet

Left on our own

                                 
                                               Can you spot the poo

                                                okey, wet i got

                                         I had so much fun up there!!

                                          We where 13 in that car, but it was only made for 6.. hum...

                                          Gate off Delhi, memorie off the people that dead in first and second ww

                                         This is acually a new police car

                                            The kings palace in Delih

                                          Paul could sleep everywhere... hard doing travelling

                                          Camera, very interesting

                                          Food party

                                           Cow's are very important in India, it's suppost to be a old good or something.
                                          So they went freelee everywhere

                                          This horse have been dressed for å wedding!

                                          Can you  spot the cow?????????????????

                                           Very hard to do travelling

Singapore

Left Bali yesterday dont think I will go back there not my kind of place. It was ok if you like just relaxing and getting a tan. But thats not me.
Kuta was ok but I think it is the Aussies place to come for sun in there winter time. Lovina was alot better more relaxed and not so busy enjoyed being there for four days.
Arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon. Amazing city so clean and so modern. Many tall skyscrapers and there still building more. Soon they wont have any places left to build.
Went on the Singapore flyer today you can see over most of Singapore. The straight of malaka is incredible pictures will follow. But I have never seen so many ships in one small stretch of water there must of been over two hundred.
Walked down the pit lane of the F1 Singapore grand prix track. They even have a football pitch in the middle of the Marina. Really enjoying Singapore great city.
Tomorrow morning we are catching a train into Malaysia. First Malaka for two days then onto Kuala Lumpar for another two days.

Fra Katmandu til Bali

Vi er vel fremme i Bali, en plass som leve vel opp til sitt rykte.  Bali er en forunderlig liten øy som er full av hollendere og australske mennesker. Vi overnattet 2 netter i Kuta, som er selveste Bali, på godt å vondt. For meg er dette spania for nordmenn, men for australske. Stapp full av puber, nattklubber, resturante, butikker og ikkje minst kjøpesenter. All sjelen fra selve indonesia er vekke. Vi brukte to dager på å orientere oss om våre videre planer for Indonesia, Singapore og Malasia og så rømte vi!!

Vi har nå rømt til den ikke-så-pøb-fulle-lovina! Her har de sjel!!

Vi har booket oss inn på et hotell for 4 netter (til den 21 feb) for å så fly videre til Singapore. Lovina er kjent for Delfin cruice og snorkling. Noe som vi skulle gjøre i dag tildig, men pga stor storm i natt var det umulig å komme seg ut med båt. Det var full måne i natt noe som gjør stor innvirkning på tidevannet som igjen lager bølger. Det har vært så stykt vær her i natt at 3 båter har blitt ødelagt.

Når vi kom til båten i morres og fikk beskjed om at det ble avlyst, så gikk vi å la oss igjen! Ingen anelse om hvor stort problem dette egentlig er! I lovina lever folk av oss! Av delfin cruice! Det vil si at for disse 3 uheldige fiskerne som fikk ødelagt båtene sine, de vil ha noen usikre måneder frem over.

Folk lever av turismen, bare 10% av turismen kommer her, men når være er dårlig blir turer avlyst å hotell, resturanter og fiskerne står arbeidsløse. Forferdelig.

En som jobber her fortalte at noen hadde booket med hennes mann (fisker) til å ta de med ut på snorkling, en familie på 5 (5 * 60 000 indiske (15 000 = 10 kroner)) det hadde hvert nok for å betale for hennes sønns eksamen.  Alle som kjenner meg vet hvor mye jeg beskymrer meg for penger, helle tiden, jeg ligger våken om nettene å tenkter å teller kroner, men for hva da!!?? Det er jo egentlig ikke beskymringer som jeg har! Det er forventninger! Forventninger som jeg selv har laget om ting som jeg må ha! Folk her lever dag for dag, og er avhengig av noe så sprøtt som en full måne!

 Turister i Lovina!

Ja det har vi hvert i dag! Vi var bokstavelig talt på Bali i 2 timer før vi så en trafikk ulykke! Vi var to uker i India å så ikke en! Vet du hvorfor? India er stapp full av indiske, å bali full av turister! Vi tutter og slenger me hånden og rekke fing! Jeg sprang fort over til jenta som  lå på bakken med mopeden over seg: går det bra? Spurte jeg! Jenta svarte med ganske mange banne ord om hva hun syntes om den  som hadde forårsaket at hun lå der! Sanheten er at det var hennes egen feil! Hennes bein var blodig men hennes ego var mer, så innen 3 sekunder var hun opp på mopeden igjen å avsted, uten et takk! På grunnlag av de 2 første timene bestemte vi oss fort for å ikke leie mopeder, men det tok hele 3 dager før det ble brytt! I dag leide vi 1 moped! Jeg insisterte på å kjøre å Stewart måtte fint bare tiestilt å sitte bak på!

Så vi har hvert turister med mopede i dag! Vi tok avsted til en plass som hette Sing Sing Waterfall, vel ankommet å litt klaging på kjøring fra Stewart sette vi i gang med turen opp til fossen. 2 lokale gutter følgte oss vel opp. Eller det som viste seg å bare vær ”litt oppe”. De overtalte oss til å gå over den strie fossen for å så gå lengre opp, jeg sier aldri nei til en utfordring så vi lusket i vei. Eller lusket i vei er nå å ta i! En hver av lokal gutta tok oss i armen og vi var et mennesklig-tog, ble en tatt av strømmen som tok godt tak i beina vår skulle de 3 andre holde igjen. Det gikk vel greit. Adrenalin kikk. Det burde kanskje ver litt beskymrende når min turguide ble tatt av strømmen å mine pusselige armer måtte dra han i sikkerhet! I ordntlig Asisk tro sier en aldri takk, å heller ikke denne Indonesiske gutten hadde mangen ord i de sekunder, men blikket sa alt!

Vel oppe å syne var fantastisk! En ny foss oppforbi den første fossen, mye større å bedre!! De lokale guttene utfordret oss til å svømme under den, men tok strømmen deg der så drog den deg ned til den andre fossen! Vi tok utfordringen, belønningen var vel hvert det!! Stewart fikk vasket seg på ordenlig Bali vis, med sand under fossen! Alle steder! De lokale guttene var stolte av å vise frem dette til oss, men krevde også god betaling for det!!

Noen kilometer unna, og en lang oppoverbakke og nedoverbakke med mopeden ankom vi ”Hot spring”. Å det lever opp til sitt navn. Det er naturlig varmt vann som kommer fra fjelltoppene. Det blir samlet i et menneskelaget basseng som vi badet i! 3 kroner kostet det oss å få bade der! Å nesten ingen turister (kan betale mye bare for den grunn)! Vi hadde en flott dag, men Stewart var raskt av mopeden når vi var vel fremme på Hotellet.

Det er nesten 9 år siden jeg solgte mopeden min, det slo meg i dag hvor lite jeg var redd for ting da, hvor fryktesløs jeg var! Nå var ikke jeg den verste av oss alle som kjørte men alle de gangene jeg datt, men likevel så var det liksom ingenting! I dag hadde jeg redselen langt oppi halsen konstant, konsekvensen med et fall er uendelig stort! Å derfor forhold jeg meg også bare til norske kjøre regler angående fart, jeg fant ut at 40km/t var nok!! Noe som gjore at jeg foretok bare 2 forbikjøringen, en syklist og en mann bakpå en ku!!

Men turen på mopeden fikk frem mangen gode minner, om Karen sin moped som gikk i maks 15 km/t opp helgø bakken å om mopeden min som frøs når tempen gikk under -1. Me hadde det utroligt kjekt med kjøreturer gjennom sandve parken og alt det andre me fant på! Tusen takk karen og Jostein for flott minner og gleder!

End of India and Nepal

Today it’s our last day with the group. Well that means it was the last day yesterday but some of us had a few days more in Katmandu.

And it is hard saying goodbye to someone that you have shared so much with.  And the truth is that we will never see them again. Australia and South Africa… I’m a bit off a track.

The last few days we have been in Nepal. Which has not stopped surprising me? Everything has been over my expectation.

As soon as you cross the border something happens, the people change and the road changes, culture changes. People here are a mix between Indian, Nepalese, Mongolians, and Tibetans. It’s strange how easy it is to tell where they are from. And they are beautiful. It seems to me that Nepal has truly found a way to combine different religions and culture in to one and people seem to respect it.

The country has a very different structure than India. Like everyone knows it’s full of mountains. Which makes it a very difficult to build train lines and good roads. This has made villages untouched from the busy tourist life, and the entire materialistic world that comes with it.

There are massive power cuts in Nepal. There is only power here a few hours a day. Even in big cities like Katmandu. That means that a “small” thing like ice-cream is very difficult to find, and expensive.

The first place we stayed over in Nepal was a place called Chitwan National Park. This place has Nepal’s biggest breeding center for Elephants and as the elephants get older they move them in to other groups. In the evening they are locked up in chains which a lot of us found really hard to see, but during the day they were “free” out in the woods.

We went on an elephant ride during the day, which was so cool. I mean it was the first time I had seen elephants, and then I was sitting on top off one. It was so amazing. We also saw two rhinos.  The hotel that we stayed at (more a lodge then a hotel) had three elephants’. And in the afternoon we went elephant washing! That was amazing. The elephant that I was on, was a young one and she did not wane do what she was told, which just made it so funny. I had a great time doing that. Have to say that nothing can beat that day. In the evening we went to watch a show in the local community hall, and for some reason I ended up on the stage dancing.

Next day we arrived in Pokhara. Pokhara is a tourist place, no doubt about that. Its famous for tourist that are relaxing before going trekking. The place was just a big entertainment place, but a lot of fun. This was the first time we had free time from the group, and the group leader had given us quite a few options that we could do, and we were all confused. We were so used to someone telling us where to go and what to do so when we had an option it didn’t go very well.

Some went paragliding…  Ian, one of the group got sick while paragliding and throw up over himself. That was a funny story..

Stewart went on a flight over the mountains of the Himalayas. He could see Everest. I think he really enjoyed it. But the camera would not auto focus at altitude. But was fine when we got back on the ground very strange.

Losing weight; it won’t happen. I have to say, before I left to India I was sure I was going to lose some weight, well I can tell you all now. It won’t happen. We eat all the time, and the food here is brilliant. But “fatty” so fatty… it’s good that I bought a big wedding dress!!

Bargaining; it’s a culture thing! If you can’t take it, you’re defiantly in the wrong place. I personally don’t like it so I avoid it, but it’s still the way it is here. I do have some other really strong opinions about is, but I will come back with that later.

 Stewart:

Just wanted to add my view and experience I have had on this gap adventure. Through India and finishing in Nepal.

My first view of India was shock. Just wanted to get back on the plane and come back home. But once we explored a bit and got to know a few people you began to understand the way the Indian people are. Yes a lot of people work extremely hard to earn a living. The condition that some of the people live can be described as squalor at best. But they can be the most kind and courteous people you could ever meet. I certainly won’t forget the places I have seen and the experience of India. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend a visit to India to everyone. It is certainly an eye opener.

Nepal is quite different than India. Living conditions are quite better than India. Most people have better access to sanitation here in Nepal.

Chitwan and Pockhora where lovely places to visit. Certainly won’t miss people clearing there throat and spitting on the ground which seems to be a Nepalese tradition by both men and woman.

Have to say I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with Elise and the rest of the group on this trip. I have met some brilliant people which I will never forget. Even though some of them live the other side of the world. You never know we might see each other again which I hope we will.

What can I say about our tour leader? Other than he was brilliant as our tour leader. He was like the entire groups mother for the fifteen days. An amazing man funny and very friendly. Certainly won’t forget him.   

Well tomorrow we begin the next leg of our trip we fly into Bangkok. The next day we fly to Bali and on through South East Asia.

 We are looking at the poo that are flying by....

We had a brilliant time. But this one did not wanne do what he was told.