Welcome to Kathmandu

We've made it to Kathmandu unscathed, but appropriately knackered. The landing at the airport was really something else as the airplane had to drop pretty quickly once it was over the surrounding mountains. (Or maybe our pilot just wasn't paying attention!)

Our time so far has been spent hunting down illusive Jerry cans to store the even more unavailble fuel. In between we've met our beast of burden that is the mighty Rickshaw. As we hoped it has been suitably pimped, courtesy of the local Nepalese mechanics.


We had Saturday morning to do some last minute fine-tuning which the other teams seemed to be taking full advantage of. Now that's just not cricket!

Tom and I on the other hand gave ours a cursory glance.

"Good job on the paint work."
"Yup."

"Got three wheels?"
"Yup."

One by one the Rickshaw's engines were fired up and pronounced fit to go, until they got to ours...


Three hours and five mechanics later we think it got the seal of approval.......or was that just resignation? I guess we'll find out tomorrow.


For those who are interested you can cut and paste the co-ordinates below into Google Earth and see where we currently are.

Current location: Hotel Garuda, Kathmandu, 27N 42'67.5" 85E 18'36.9"