- 463t Arrive in Kathmandu 11/11/08

- 464t Complaining about Kathmandu
- 465t Dhulikhel etc.
- 466t Trekking is overcommercialised etc. 26-30/11/08 Helambu and over 4600m
- 467t Kathmandu 2 1-3/12/08
- 468t Bandipur 4-6/12/08
- 469t Pokhara - Hanging Out 7-?/12/08
- 470t Tansen 21/12/08
- 471t Travelling western Terai 22/12/08
- 472t Rhinos All Hiding 23/12/08
- 473t Chisopani 24/12/08
- 474t Hetauda 25-27/12/08
- 475t PPPI People Visit Hari's Garden28/12/08
- 475at Hetauda 2 28/12/08
- 476t Kosi River Farce 29/12/08
- 477t Dharan 1 30-1/12/2008
- 478t Dharan 2 2-5/1/09
- 479t Lost on the BP Highway 5-8/1/09
- 480t Back in KTM 8-15/1/2009
- 481at Repairing Phone Saga Jan 09
- 481t Yes Got my phone back 16-21/1/2009
- 481bt Chobar Again 22/1/09
- 481ct India Preparations 22/1/09
- 482t Travel to India 23/1/09

- NEXT see NE Indian Hills INDEX Jan-Feb 2009

- 30% of Nepalis have never been to Nepal One of the strangest things I learnt about Nepal is that for the last 150 years a sizeable proportion of the culturally Nepali population has lived outside Nepal. The whole of Sikkim, and Indian mountain areas like Darjeeling and Kalimpong have Nepali speakers as the majority. There is a dream of a Nepali "Gorkkaland" stretching all the way from East Nepal to Bhutan, but I think it's totally unrealistic to expect Delhi to accept something which may restrict movement of the Indian Army to it's borders as China has invaded before in 1973. The fear is that if border states have too much independence they may face pressure from China and this chipping away at the edges would threaten the security of the whole state.

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