Nepal

Nepal has been a smooth ride. I was that close to have you guys winning your bet, that I would never leave Kathmandu. After a month and a half, I felt like home, had an everyday life and my habits, my friends. Special thanks to Raj, Nima, Aino, Ken, Olli, Laura, Josh, Guillemette, Clinton, Shiva and the others to have made my entry point so easy. Nepali can't be more smiling and friendly, and cruising around the country was made pretty easy. Overall political climate, even though unfelt mostly by tourists, cast a cloud over the bright picture... Despite recent cease-fire, super sad stories are still heard of.
Trekking the Annapurna was an everyday slap in the face. Please. If you smoke a pack a day, and like your daily drink, please come enjoy a 330 km walk with a 5 416m-high pass, carry a 13 kgs backpack, and come dance in the clouds. I can't remember having both enjoyed and suffered that much...
As a matter of sweating a last time, bungy-jumped 160 m with a 2 hours-fresh hangover. Better than Nurofen.

Here are some of my pictures from Nepal

1- As a Slideshow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/1189956/show/

2- As an Album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/1189956/

Tibet

This trip to Tibet has been truly overwhelming. I came back exhausted, both physically and nervously. Waited a month to get in, so that the chinese could re-open the border, that they decided to close to celebrate in family the invasion ("The Liberation" for them) 40 years ago. I'll try to stay polite and won't expand.
The country is as I was expecting it. Breathtaking sights, beautiful people, mind-blogging temples' athmospheres.
Day-after-day, though, chinese military enjoy making your life miserable, and suck the happiness out of your blood, twisting your nerves.
Supposed to fly back from Lhassa, we had to ride back in Landcruiser all the way down south, for a missing piece of paper. When militaries are not sleeping, they're just non-sense-mind-crushing worms...
I guess that the Beijing-to-Lhassa train, opening in 2007, will finish to trash the place. If you have any will to go there, please hurry...
Hope you'll get a glimpse of the athmosphere through the pics. Despite the above-mentionned circumstances, this place is paradise...

Here are the links
1- As a Slideshow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/1188000/show/

2- As an Album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/1188000/