The Robbins are headed to Nepal and Northern India for a month. We fly into Kathmandu. We'll visit Kathmandu Valley, trek and see a bunch of tall mountains including Everest, monkeys/rhinos/elephants in Chitwan Nat'l Park, Darmashala home of the Dalai Lama, Dehli, the Taj Mahal, and my favorite city Varanasi and other places we havent thought of yet. Right now we're working on basics. Last week it was finding the Japanese Encephalitis shot ($330 in Us, $185 in Canada, $36 in Kathmandu -- 2 per person). This week its tracking down paper Indian Visas because e-visas can only be used by air and sea. Ten hours on the visa website isn't cool man. And Eric has been trying to get the time off work. At one point he was meeting us in transit, but its looking more promising today.
As far as accommodation and travel is concerned, we have plane tickets (bought using miles) ... that's it. Meeting people and experiencing the culture are high on the travel hopes, so rolling with the day usually is the best bet and fellow travelers usually have the best tips.
Packing ... its 3 pants and 3 shirts (3 is generous in my book ... id say 2) for everyone and 10 pairs of underwear. Mainly the packs are filled with deet, suntan lotion, hats, covid vaccine proof, imodium, rehydration salts, antibiotics, protein bars, travel books, ponchos, travel plugs, binoculars, and maybe some cool bandanas to trade with locals ... and all the stuff im going to think of soon. We can buy stuff there. Hopefully we'll post along the way too.
Traveling again and with my kids is so exciting! But the lead up to it can be hairy.
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