Nepal/Kathmandu

I got a one-way-ticket to Kathmandu. First I wanted to go to Nepal, mainly to make the Annapurna trip. It was October - the right time to do so.

I was up to a funny start. All my flights were delayed. In Paris an airport adviser opened doors for me, which are usually not used by passengers just to catch the flight "Paris- Bombay- Kathmandu" in time.

Bombay airport was great. There were beds for free. Unfortunately I couldn´t change money in the transit aera. Not one of the shops accepted US-dollars, so I asked an indian business man to change some money but he didn´t. He gave me 200 Rupees as a gift!

Kathmandu:

Kathmandu has a great town center. Narrow streets, almost no cars (but nevertheless some drivers tried to drive through them, which was even funnier when another car came from the other direction.)







I spent many hours in these small streets, found many markets, hidden temples and also a lot of buddist wats (temples mainly for tibetian immigrants).

The preperations

The preparations where quite simple. I am not a big planner. I rented my apartment to students and checked my insurance in Austria, so whatever would happen: I would have medical care in Austria.

introduction

This journey took place 7 years ago. I dreamed about it since I had travelled to india in 1993. It was my first journey that ended with the thought: "I dont wanna go home!!" In september 2000 I decided to make a really long journey. I finished my puplic service, made some good money during my studies before and I was single.
So I made my dream come true: going away for 12 months, buying an old enfield,(an old english motorbike: 1 cylinder; 17 horsepowers and damn heavy!), traveling through india and then going back home all the way with that old bike.

Why publishing now online?

I published the story on an austrian online-newspaper, but after some years they erased it. There was also a publication in a motorbike-magazin, which was mainly about my old bike. So nobody knows about this adventure anymore.
But I want people to share my great feelings about this wonderful journey.

I hope you enjoy that blog!!

Please keep in mind, that English is not my main language. So please forgive me my mistakes.

All pictures on this page were shot on film with an olympus compact camera. Most of them are good enough for printing at 30x45cm in photo quality. Those old cameras were amazing. Nevertheless I feel sorry, that I didn´t have a better equipment with me, and I wish I would have had the knowledge about photography that I have now.
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The pics are far away from being perfect, but they are telling a story and all of them were made with passion and dignitiy. After that journey I decided to become a photographer. I made the picures because I was traveling alone and for some reason I wanted to share my experiences, my impressions and my feelings.

It will take a while to put everything online, but I`ll try to make regular updates. When it is finished it will cover Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey.



But anyway...let the journey begin...