George crossing the Friendship Bridge from Tibet to Nepal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThis was an exciting moment as we had never walked across a border like this before, but at the same time it was a little sad to bid Tibet farewell.\u00a0 Warning:\u00a0 Photography on the Friendship Bridge linking Tibet and Nepal is strictly prohibited!\u00a0 I found that out when a guard ran at me waving his arms and yelling “no photography.”\u00a0 I was afraid he’d confiscate my camera, but nothing happened, and we got this rare photo!\u00a0 Next time I won’t listen when g tells me to take a photo… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Once we were on the Nepalese side, even though there were several heavily armed guards, we could have easily just walked into town and no one would have questioned us … so it seemed!\u00a0 Right past the bridge the first building that we encountered on the left side was the immigration office and it turned out to be the biggest circus event!\u00a0 The room was filled from wall to wall with foreigners trying to get their visas and no one in control!\u00a0 We had to fight our way to the front desk to grab some paperwork but we had no idea if that was the correct forms.\u00a0 Finally, we found some tourists who spoke English and they were able to direct us to the correct forms.\u00a0 There were no signs indicating which person to hand our forms to, either, but luckily we found the right person.\u00a0 I think we were the only ones there who did not have the assistance of a guide, which would have made things much easier!\u00a0 (We had to part with our guide on the Tibet side, since he can’t leave the country, after the government “collected” Tibetan’s passports last year.)\u00a0 By the time we got our visas ($20 per\/person USD only), we were the last ones in the immigration office.\u00a0 It was amazing how a crazy filled office can become silent in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n
Soon we were on our way to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.\u00a0 Our hired taxi turned out to be an old beat up Toyota.\u00a0 George sat in the front seat and the door wouldn’t properly close while Heidi was in the back with all the luggage.\u00a0 No worries though as we were used to this … the road was very winding with cliffs everywhere and our driver drove like a reckless maniac, but he did seem to be in control of his vehicle and had clearly done this many times before.\u00a0 On the positive side, the scenery was absolutely stunning with lush greenery and majestic waterfalls.\u00a0 Four hours later we were in Kathmandu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
May 22, 2009: The next morning we woke early to get a start down the friendship highway to Nepal.\u00a0 We had to get an early start to hopefully beat the road crews who were working in several different locations all the way to the Nepalese border. We made one last stop in the early morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,58,4,777],"tags":[137,514,217],"yoast_head":"\n
Tibet to Nepal via the Friendship Highway - Kensho Quest<\/title>\n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n