The Last Resort

So, after a couple of days in Kathmandu we set off to The Last Resort, which is a resort in the border-region towards China. It was so nice! Huge tents with beds and hot showers and a lovely garden where we relaxed. The first night we just chilled out and ate nice food and played Trivial Pursuit.

The next day however was a bit more exciting! We started off after breakfast, John and David from my group and a guy from the other group and me. We were going canyoning! The Last Resort was set in the mountainside, about 160 meters from the bottom of a beautiful gorge, with steep mountains on either side. We walked along untill we got to a waterfall where our first rapelling was. We started out with an easy one of 8 meters, and worked our way down the mountainside, absailing and sliding. The last waterfall was 45 meters! It was great fun. Walking back up the steep hillside wasn't that fun...

But then it was time for the highlight of the day, BUNGY!!! I wasn't going to do it when I first heard we had the option, because I thought it would probably be shorter than the one I did in New Zealand, but then we got there and it turned out to be 160 meters! So I just had to do it. It was great fun, I wasn't nervous untill I actually stepped out onto the platform, and then I thought "Heeelp, what the ***** am I doing???" But I didn't really have any choice, so the guy said "Ready? Three two one, bungy!" and I let myself fall... You know the rest! Adrenaline flows like mad and it's such a good feeling :)

So after walking back up from the bottom a second time I was nackered, and spent the rest of the day lying around reading my book and having a dip in the plunge pool.

The next morning we set off to cross the border into China. That was basically just a whole day of waiting... We waited for about 3 hours before we had a health-check, and then another hour before our bags were sprayed and then we went through customs and then a few more hours wait for the truck to pass. And we used about 40 minutes to get through and the truck used 2 minutes, so can't really say we were extremly happy about it all. But we got through and are currently in a town called Zhangmu. Last night we had cake because it was Jacks birthday. Today we're just hanging around. We were supposed to leave early but they are doing roadworks on the road we're going on, so they close the road during the day and it's open during the night... So hopefully at 9 pm we'll be off to the mountains... What a country!