Wednesday, July 28, 2010

How Many Ten Sports In Nilesat?

Lhasa to Tibet

Having had three days Kathmandu, it finally happened. Now it should go by plane to Lhasa. If you want to enter Tibet, you can not just go to the border post and say "Hi, here I am."
for entry are to make some preparations. For Tibet, one needs a visa. Currently, it is rather difficult to impossible to obtain a visa as an individual. Simple works it with a group visa. If you like, we go as a group, we have solved the problem schonmal. Otherwise, one could look for example in Kathmandu travelers with the same goal and thus form a group.
one has therefore come together as a group need to be completed in accordance with the visa applications. We must now add a lot of thoughtful and less meaningful quality data and a passport photo glued to the application. We had all done this on our first evening in Kathmandu and the applications, including, where our passports and $ 114 fee per person our guide on the spot. The entire application and then at the Chinese Embassy. You must schedule at least 2 days for the answer before then the corresponding Permit gets.
We ran everything smoothly and it was with Air China to Lhasa. The flight itself is, if one has no fear of flying, an experience. One should be careful to have left a place in the machine, as some eight-thousand and you are close enough to touch the right flies.
The entry itself is then a little more strenuous and exciting. On the group visa, there was an order of the names and everyone was now only a number. So we had to for the time in Tibet and for each check in the correct order up in a queue (I was number 8).
Some pieces of luggage were allowed to be cleared completely and it is controlled by the Chinese officials very carefully. A highlight is the reading session of the officials. Every book or magazine, no matter what language to be browsed through from beginning to end exactly legal. So, for example, a GEO magazine in our tour group inspecting sheet by sheet. One should therefore be careful not "anti-China" magazines have to with him. Something like "Seven years of Tibet" is not at all good.
Then we had it done and soon were in Tibet by our local guide (which is compulsory for travel in Tibet) with a Khata received.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Ingredients To Brazilian Wax

If the aircraft does not even starts

Our holiday was only hours old and already it was exciting. Many who know me know that my strength is not in flies or to be more precise is flying in the (joint). In short, flying scares me and not one of my hobbies! Due to lack of time but now it is even necessary, that I must often the boarding an aircraft.
Our way was with Etihad from Frankfurt via Abu Dhabi to Kathmandu ... at least that's the plan. Abu Dhabi until everything went according to plan. There, we got it into our next machine and rolled to the runway. Just before the start was the machine stops. We were told that the engine would not start and the problems should either be resolved or a new machine are needed. The fact I said something in the next hour, the excitement and then we in the machine spent reassured me not much. Then came the redemption, we got a new machine.
with plenty of late we started for Kathmandu and it was already announced turmoil ... Class! When we reached after 4 hours of flight Kathmandu the weather changed and a storm began to spread about our airport. That meant for us a few extra rounds in the storm allowed to turn over the Kathmandu Valley. My pulse rose from minute to minute on a rather uncomfortable pace and I could not think of nicer places for the moment. After about an hour there was a small change. The Kathmandu airport was closed and we could try our luck in Calcutta.
How exciting, now we had to fly even the possibility to India. The flight and the landing proceeded without incident now. However, since no one had a visa for India and not a contract with Etihad Calcutta we were about 4 or 5 hours after landing, keep our seat on the plane. Then we were finally admitted for a few hours to India. The entire aircraft was distributed in the whole of Kolkata on hotels. In this way we were treated to an old taxi about 45 minutes to drive through the city. The ride in the taxi, as well as what we saw on the trip, compensated for the flight stress. Compensate I mean in the sense of gathering impressions. It is frightening what is in this metropolis of more see over 10 million inhabitants in the catchment area, hear and smell gets. This gives an impression of life and the poverty of the people living here. What you read about, heard or saw on TV, can not in the least suspect what is really going on. The short visit has left us, in any case, tracks ...



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Back again!

If even a week later, we would like to report back from our vacation. After 22 days of adventure, crazy events and various events, we landed safely last Saturday in Munich. Since then, we are concerned the journey to understand bit by bit and let things drift first. In the next articles I will give several small anecdotes. There is enough material and if I had time and talent I could fill a book.
It would be an exciting story about a culture (at least what is left of it), an interesting religion, of breathtaking landscapes and extreme climatic conditions. It would deal with the extreme altitude, the Himalayas and the remnants of a nomadic culture. However, defective aircraft, collapsing airports and emergency treatment in Chinese hospitals would be an issue.
Although we have in the past few days still have some problems with acclimatization and relatively slack, and despite some health problems during the trip, we would do it again. With a really cool band in the 22 days we have experienced so much and learned that we are now once again moves into the distance ...