Our return home! Yippee!

We have 2 more days left in Nepal before we fly back to Delhi on Friday (oh no!!!!!) We really don't want to go back to India but it's the only way home. We are going to take a picnic from a Nepalese supermarket so that we don't have to eat for the 24 hours we are in smelly Delhi! (After talking to the Dutch girl from the rafting who had got Typhoid from India! and the Greek guy, Paris from our trek who had been poisoned in Calcutta and lost feeling in his arm for a week! it has reassured us that we were not paranoid about India!)

On Saturday we fly from Delhi to Manchester via Abu Dhabi returning home on Sunday. Yippee! We will post the rest of our Nepal photos when we get home as there are so many of the Himalayas that it will take forever without Broadband!

Looking forward to seeing everyone and hope everyone's enjoyed following our little circle of Asia which has been a massive education to us.

Rafting

We booked a 3 day rafting trip down the Kali Gandiki river, which we ended up cramming into 2 days which meant a 5 o'clock start on the 1st day. It was fantastic! Rachel was a little scared at the thought of it, but ended up loving it, even when she got chucked out in the middle of a rapid! We had a great guide who steered while we and a dutch couple paddled like mad. Unfortunately the dutch man was a bit clumsy and ended up pushing Craig's face about 5 foot under the water with his foot in the middle of a rapid! The dutch guy was oblivious to this as he swam to safety. We capsised on the 2nd day over a massive rapid (a 4 apparently?) and we all ended up in the water. Craig floated down the river and was picked up by the other raft and Rachel ended up balance on a rock with the catamaran carrying the camping gear picking her up. The water was rather cold! But is was all great fun and we ended up camping on a beach with a hole in the sand for a loo and a campfire to keep us warm.