O.M.G. The Chili Crab!

So I was originally going to call this post something along the lines of eating our way through Singapore, while creatively adding in something about Christmas lights. But then we had the Chili Crab for dinner and O.M.G. Ok so let us start from the beginning. Singapore wasn’t originally on our list of places to…

Pokhara

Since we ended up with more time in the city of Pokhara than planned, we booked a tour to learn about the Tibetan refugees in the area. (We tried to squeeze in a trip to Tibet, but there is a ton of red tape.) But this tour was incredible. It is one of the best…

Annapurna Trek to Poon Hill

(Finally catching up on our blog posts!) After a few days in Kathmandu and a weekend in Nagarkot, we packed everything up to head to Pokhara. The bus station was right down the street, but with all of our stuff (plus the 40lbs of school supplies we brought as a donation to a local Pokhara…

Hotel at the End of the Universe

After two whole days in the big city of Kathmandu, we were ready for a break. It was Saturday (their “Sunday”) and we were told many things would be closed. A cab driver told us to check out a place called Nagarkot – so we looked it up during breakfast, packed an overnight bag, and…

The first rule of navigating Kathmandu…

There are no rules. I have made the joke in many countries that traffic rules are more like guidelines. Here I don’t even think they exist. One lane roads are shared with two-way traffic of cars, vans, buses, carts, pedestrians, motorcycles, cows, dogs and more! Crossing the street, is like a real-life game of Frogger….