Too bloody wet

It's me again, did you miss me?...

and now?

I have just returned from 3 days of white water rafting at the Kali Gantaki river and beside the great fun it was so bloody wet, I don't really know how such a river can be so wet.
Of course that after the first day was a lovely sunny day, the rain must come but it had it's own weird fun and the great thing was that we understood what "Forrest Gump" has talked about when he told about rain that come from below.

I'm back now at Pokhara, resting and resting some more. I decided not to go to the around Annapurna track for the many reason that it's too long, the weather is too something on the hi mountains and for the main reason that I don't feel like doing it.

Polsar 180 - bad machine

Yesterday we rented a brand new motor bike, a polsar 180cc, looks like a least 500cc and drive like one.
all day long I had trouble with the manual gear (after 5 years of driving only automatic bikes) specially to lower the gear. anyway I'm blaming the bike of course for the problem.

not as every western country rental company which you get the vehicle with full tank of gas, here you get it totally empty except few drops to get to the nearest petrol station (downhill of course to make sure you get there), there you get the shock of the petrol price cause if there is one thing that's not cheap here is the petrol, only half tank cost us as twice as much as all the renting.
Anyway, now I had my own horn to honk with.
As much as they don't have road infrastructure that how much they are courteous with their driving, the honking is integral part of their driving which could mean few things like slow down I'm passing and you can be sure the other driver will let you pass.

After that day we cover a large distance of all Pokhara area, we got to places we would have never got there without the bike.

Again??

Of course
again and another time again backwards.

what am I talking about?
I found my purpose in life.
yesterday we went to do a bunjy jump or to be more precise bunjy jumps.
this time, compare to the jump in New Zealand it was higher (around 160 meter) and from a bridge, as I always wanted to do, and not just an ordinary bridge but a suspension one.
with the same weight as last time (3 month ago), this time I was first to jump and with much less pressure I had beautiful jump (everybody agreed I had the best one).
At the second jump I ask the guide if on the jump I can spin myself, so he tells me "No, cause you are going to jump backwards". my first reaction was awesome, the reaction after the jump was AWESOME!!!!.

Anyway the combo deal is that the 2nd and the 3rd jump are very cheap and the 4th is toll free, so sometime on the following weeks I'll go jump 3rd and 4th but this time it's going to be night jumps.

so stay with both feet on the ground and have a happy birthday

(tomorrow 22nd).

The Frozen Lakes

I've just came back from a 6 day track to 7 frozen lakes which placed at 4650 meters somewhere on the mountains and I have a lot to tell.

It all start on a long ride on a local bus with a goat and chickens on the top of the bus, now, don't feel sorry too much for them cause it turns out that the best seats are on the roof and at the moment we got out of Kathmandu we went to make them company.

Also turns out that the driver is blind on his right eye so he can't see the near side of the bus, the distant side he can't see anyway and that way he does not afraid from the cliffs which are all the way.

After one day of hiking I fired my porter and continue carry my own backpack.
on the 2nd and 3rd day it start snowing and it was quite great hiking though it was cold.
In retrospect, since hight of 3000 meters till we started to go down I had altitude sickness, I had all the symptoms, headache, fatigue and most important lost of appetite (good to the figure).

Anyway although we've been told the frozen lakes are not really frozen this time of year, 2 of the 7 were, and with the background of the snowing mountains you can hardly beat such view.

I'm back now at Kathmandu resting until...

Afikoman

I've just got remembered that I forgot the AFIKOMAN at the Seder hidden under the table, I hope they'll find it soon.

At Nepal harechoka

After the Seder I set my ways to the airport and after one day in Hong Kong I've reached Kathmandu Nepal.It's very nice in here ,different you may say.

After 2 second here I decided I've got to get myself my own horn, and after 2 hours I've decided to become a vegetarian.

Happy Passover

First I wanna wish you all a Happy Passover. so Happy Passover.

Two days in a row they are celebrating the Seder Passover here in Australia, both Yossi and I had been left to conduct and everybody looked at us as we know what we are doing.

Our luck is they can't tell how much we don't know how to run it.

And when the hell you eat the eggs?

Was motorbike

I want to tell you the bad news from back home which that my bike, my precious Honda bike, thanks to my lovely sister has been stolen, two month ago, and only now I have been told about it. well, what can I say? that's what happened when you leave it AT THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY!

so take care, have a great holiday
love you all (yes, you too Rotem)

Back from Melbourne to Sydney

I've just came back to Sydney after a week in Melbourne. There Yossi and I rent a car in purpose to explore the Great Ocean Road but as we took the car before all we went to drive the Melbourne Formula 1 track which is used all the rest of the year as a regular traffic road, anyway we didn't drive too fast there cause the limit speed is very strict there and the police cameras are everywhere.

Anyway the Great Ocean Road was really great we did see a lot of ocean and the really great part is that we saw Koalas at there natural habitat.

The Twelve Apostles

On Saturday we went to the Melbourne Zoo in purpose to pet a Koala but it was quite a lousy zoo which you need to look very good to find any animals cause they hardly exist there, anyway the only Koala I had the chance to pet was a stuffed one.

שד טזמני מסתובב בלי סוף כמו רוח משתוללת מחוף לחוף

Today I'm back at Sydney and the weather is not as it was when I left the city which mean that it's time to move up north (right after passover night).

Vipassana ??!

You are probably thinking it's been a long time since my last post and wondering where have I gone?

Well, I've been thinking why wait till I'll get to India when I can Vipassana myself here in Australia.