25 May 2014

Paro

Some light trekking today. The Tiger’s nest is one of the highlights of our journey.read more...

Kathmandu-Paro

Fantastic flight along the Himalayas and difficult but great landing in Paro.read more...

Kathmandu

We stay at the wonderful Dwarika?s Hotel. Very tastefully done - rooms are just great. So is the Nepali dinner at the restaurant: outstanding! Unfortunately we have to change to another hotel. So packing up after breakfast and our guide Ram picks us and luggage up for a sightseeing tour. read more...

Lahore-Kathmandu

Rush hour in Lahore starts not at 08.00h. So we have a pretty smooth ride to the airport. There again everything is slightly disorganized but again with loads of checks and controls. What would we do without our handler. But we are in the air by 09.15h, flying off to Nepal together with our Nepali colleague, Mr. Shree Ballav Bhattaari. The flight is long enough to update the webpage. Because the rest of the day...read more...

Dushanbe-Lahore

Great breakfast and again very efficient handling of everything at the airport. We are in the air by 08.55h, flying over the beautiful Pamir Mountains, Afghanistan (with much military air traffic) to Lahore. Here it is hot!! With all those people around (yes there are many) and formalities, forms it takes us a bit longer to get through it all. But the hotel bus is waiting; and so is Pakistan for us. Most important event of the day: Iman Frey is shaving his beard off!!read more...

Samarkand-Dushanbe

Interesting short flight over beautiful mountains. Software update of navigation system without any problems. Immigration and customs in record time!! Hyatt absolutely top again with super fast Internet. Finally we can make our followers happy again!
Interesting sightseeing tour with Sitora, our local guide.read more...

Samarkand

Interesting but tough sightseeing day in this beautiful city. Our guide is absolutely top: Bravo Anvar!
After a decent breakfast in our luxury hotel, we drive first to the Gur-E-Amir Mausoleum, built in 1404 by Timur for his grandson. The interior is just stunning again. read more...