After a very enjoyable start to India, it's time to leave for Nepal. The drive to the border from Sohra (Cherrapunjee) is 640km and a further 450km to Kathmandu, all of which we plan to do over 4 days.
Our first night in Nepal we arrived (quite late) to our first camp spot which was by a beautiful river. We'd been excited to get to Nepal and find spots like this so we were feeling pretty happy to say the least. We cooked up a delicious breaky (cereal) and a strong coffee, and just sat back for 30 mins to take it all in before we kept driving to Kathmandu.
We had a couple of days in Kathmandu catching up on some editing, recording a podcast for GHT Overland (which you can listen to here: ghtoverland.com/the-way-overland ), and also on the usual chores like laundry and cleaning before our visitor arrived.
Mitch (Mark's brother) is back for his third visit since we've been on the trip. This time would be a little different though as we weren't going to be spending the majority of his time travelling in the Troopy. Instead, we'd be doing the 'Three Passes Trek' in the Everest region, plus another week trek to and from where we leave the car, a total of 4 weeks completing about 250km on foot.
After acquiring all of our gear for the trek in Thamel, we hit the road and started making our way to Salleri, a small village in the mountains where we planned to leave the Troopy.
Leaving Kathmandu we didn't get away until midday to start the 8 hour drive to Salleri. As we didn't want to drive in the dark we followed some tracks down to the river about half way and found a pretty epic spot for the night before continuing on the next morning.
That's a wrap for this episode! Thanks for watching! In the next episode we’ll be changing our means of travel and embarking on the "Three Passes Trek".
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17 дек 2018
