Here's the news from the first few weeks of 'Part 2'. Kerry and I arrived in Nepal via Delhi International Airport, where we got charged to sit in the waiting room to wait for our connecting flight. Bloody cheek! We arrived into Kathmandu at about 11pm and got into a taxi with the first bloke who offered to take us into town (not my usual style I'd like to add). After revealing that we had just come from the UK and were away for 8 months our taxi driver took a 'short cut' to the city center. I thought that we were about to be robbed, but it turned out to be a genuine short cut. We got taken to his friends hotel (as expected) and spent a couple of days looking aroung the Thamel area of Kathmandu, after meeting up with an OTC mate who came from Bangkok. We took a 7 hour bus ride to Pokhara, in the Annapurna region. We decided that we would go rafting before trekking so Skippy and I went down the Marsyangdi for 5 days and Kerry went down the Kali Gandiki for 3 days. I got the shits really badly, so decided to have a couple of rest days in Pokhara before trekking. Skippy went off around the Annapurna circuit without me, so Kerry and I flew into Jomsom and trekked 8 days back to Pokhara via the 'Worlds Deepest Valley' (it goes between two 8,000m peaks) and Poon Hill (3210m) which had excellent views of the Annapurna and Dhalagiri ranges. Kerry was ill for most of the trek, but we were trekking without a guide so made some short days. From Pokhara we went to the Royal Chitwan National Park where we went elephant riding, jungle walking and canoeing. We saw a couple of rhinos and a couple of crocodiles (different to Africa rhino and crocs). We have just arrived back in Kathmandu today and will be sightseeing the Kathmandu Valley area for a while. Take care, Mike.