on 4th july baba and myself left kathmandu for a 6 week holiday to be with kripa and ravi in london and then ujwal and rehna in germany. yup cholu's left home alone!! : (
this post captures the first leg of our journey..from kathmandu to kingston.
the flight to delhi was fantastic thanks to ibrahim of afghanistan to let me have his window seat! then onwards to london we had non window seats.. imagine not being able to see the wonderful landscape unfolding 'neath you!!! i did manage to go to the back of the plane occasionally to see out of the little window.. especially when we were flying of uzbekistan and i was able to view the aral sea disintegrating even more into itsy bitsy lakes... sad!
so here goes...
due to the misprint of the TIA dotmatrix printer which missed a line of dots, i thought my seat was a D when it was actually a B, next to baba's A seat.. but seated i was on the other side and did sweet talk my way to the window, thanks to ibrahim, the afghani student of natural resource management at KU!
boy was i glad my sweet talking worked! what a view. clean air because of the monsoons meant crispy views
the view of patan....
kathmandu polka dotted with cloud shadows
trishuli at galchhi
more sand for kathmandu homes and apartments... at the cost of ecology outside of the valley
the himal tops were peeping above the clouds.. this is the ganesh himal range
manaslu...
himalchuli...
begnas tal near pokhara...
machhapuchhre plays mau hau with the clouds
pokhara and phewa tal.. notice the flooded ram ghat..the seti gorge must have been blocked by logjam
annapurna two and four.. draped in white
dhaulagiri's pyramid top
annapurna one and south
dhalagiri's neighbours (tukchey peak, perhaps?)
dhaulagiri again, from a different angle
kali gandaki flowing southwards between two 8000 metre massifs
a lake that seemed to have been formed after a landslide blocked a river? where? i couldn't figure out...
mahendranagarar and tanakapur.. and then we were in indian airspace
the plane dips south-westwards.. the winglets reaching for the deep blue skies
away from the mountains, the earth seemed drier
chequered fields
polluted river near delhi
a metro station... when will we get e-trains running the length of the terai?
trains.. flyovers and highways, india's pragati is so evident...
landing at indira gandhi airport.. the soon to be opened terminal three in the background
our 777's waiting
after a nine hour flight we reached heathrow... but had to wait in a serpentine line for nearly two hours at the immigration counter!!!
in kingston the next morning by four thirty the ghaam was jhalamala
we went walking by the river thames nearby.. saw ducks jostling for bread
the swan pretending it was not interested..
and pigeons pecking at bread on the side..
then we walked around the kingston market place
walked past the farmer's market.. where there were cherries galore.. cholu, stop drooling!
even bigger cherries! ghutukka!!
veggies galore...
into the bentall mall
near the tumbling telephone booths
petunias hanging from lamp posts
the apartment has a good view of automobiles on the bridge...
...boats on the river...
... and airplanes heading for heathrow...
the sun tries to call it a day after hanging around for 16 hours!!
this post captures the first leg of our journey..from kathmandu to kingston.
the flight to delhi was fantastic thanks to ibrahim of afghanistan to let me have his window seat! then onwards to london we had non window seats.. imagine not being able to see the wonderful landscape unfolding 'neath you!!! i did manage to go to the back of the plane occasionally to see out of the little window.. especially when we were flying of uzbekistan and i was able to view the aral sea disintegrating even more into itsy bitsy lakes... sad!
so here goes...
due to the misprint of the TIA dotmatrix printer which missed a line of dots, i thought my seat was a D when it was actually a B, next to baba's A seat.. but seated i was on the other side and did sweet talk my way to the window, thanks to ibrahim, the afghani student of natural resource management at KU!
boy was i glad my sweet talking worked! what a view. clean air because of the monsoons meant crispy views
the view of patan....
kathmandu polka dotted with cloud shadows
trishuli at galchhi
more sand for kathmandu homes and apartments... at the cost of ecology outside of the valley
the himal tops were peeping above the clouds.. this is the ganesh himal range
manaslu...
himalchuli...
begnas tal near pokhara...
machhapuchhre plays mau hau with the clouds
pokhara and phewa tal.. notice the flooded ram ghat..the seti gorge must have been blocked by logjam
annapurna two and four.. draped in white
dhaulagiri's pyramid top
annapurna one and south
dhalagiri's neighbours (tukchey peak, perhaps?)
dhaulagiri again, from a different angle
kali gandaki flowing southwards between two 8000 metre massifs
a lake that seemed to have been formed after a landslide blocked a river? where? i couldn't figure out...
mahendranagarar and tanakapur.. and then we were in indian airspace
the plane dips south-westwards.. the winglets reaching for the deep blue skies
away from the mountains, the earth seemed drier
chequered fields
polluted river near delhi
a metro station... when will we get e-trains running the length of the terai?
trains.. flyovers and highways, india's pragati is so evident...
landing at indira gandhi airport.. the soon to be opened terminal three in the background
our 777's waiting
after a nine hour flight we reached heathrow... but had to wait in a serpentine line for nearly two hours at the immigration counter!!!
in kingston the next morning by four thirty the ghaam was jhalamala
we went walking by the river thames nearby.. saw ducks jostling for bread
the swan pretending it was not interested..
and pigeons pecking at bread on the side..
then we walked around the kingston market place
walked past the farmer's market.. where there were cherries galore.. cholu, stop drooling!
even bigger cherries! ghutukka!!
veggies galore...
into the bentall mall
near the tumbling telephone booths
petunias hanging from lamp posts
the apartment has a good view of automobiles on the bridge...
...boats on the river...
... and airplanes heading for heathrow...
the sun tries to call it a day after hanging around for 16 hours!!
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