Thanks again to people who wondered why we weren't moving.

And those who understood the fine line between rolling over and remaining upright.

Everything is carried from the bus through Pame Bazaar.

Rice all around us.

Seems to be common among overland travelers in vehicles who reach Nepal.

Nice to know we aren't any different.

We just watched the birds around the campsite.

And struggled to give them names.

This looks like a red vented bulbul. Popular with the pet trade and un popular after release in NZ.

We later found bread in Pame, a couple of hundred metres away.

But early on we made some of our own.

The cooker had struggled to suck fuel up to the pump but managed to get it going. Though a bit intermittently.

We don't have to go far. The birds come to us.

And have begun maintenance and cleaning.

First Wings Travel.

Things went a little wrong. We were honest on the form and provided details of UK/NZ as well as Aus passports.

Copies of UK/NZ were lost somewhere. 18 days instead of 10 for passport return.

Lakeside in Pokhara.

We gave a sick backpacker a lift into the hospital.

Diagnosed Typhoid within an hour and admitted to hospital.

All well a few days later.

The tractor was moving!

A haystack for Ali.

Butterflies to cheer us up.

We summoned the energy to walk.

Greeted by white heron.

And a lookout at the top.

Annapurna.

The high point is the bit to the right. A bit further away than the big bit.

And a big fish pond.

Austrian.

They are on their way through Myanmar to Thailand.

We later learned they went off the very wet muddy road in Nagaland (NE India) and damaged the side of the vehicle but have driven through to Thailand.

I started at the wrong end. The leak was in the last joint I tried. Just after I'd begun doubting my sanity.

I inspected the burner and discovered the temperature sensor had a hole in the end of the sheath.

All working well.

The alternative was new part. Available from Aus in January, a couple of months away, or UK with 2 weeks lead time.

Located a Wallas part (they made the cooker for Webasto) but wanted VAT and shipping company didn't answer my queries.

In Brisbane I would make my own part!

Not quite as black as it first looked.

This one seemed to like posing.

Did I mention we are chuffed with the camera we bought in Lhasa.

24x zoom.

The old Lumix died with a zoom problem.

A giant swing.

Newly erected. Rope broke and girl fell on first day.

Instead we took the wrong valley and followed the river.

There's a flying insect, or at least one that used to fly, inside the speedo.

Remove dashboard to get at speedo.

Clean everything in sight.

Fixed the driver's seat slide release that's not worked since installed.

Another day gone.

Music and speeches.

We couldn't understand the words but the approach is the same the world over.

Political speeches sound like political speeches. Rousing the crowd. 

I thought the exhaust pipe needed a polish.

Isn't this what everyone does in Nepal?

Its wings are white. Difficult for us to capture it in flight,  Have to take our word for it.

On its favourite perch.

We've moved the truck nearer the water.

We watched the white heron stalking either small fish or frogs - though we haven't heard any frogs.

The frogs were either never there, don't make a noise, or have been eaten.

A small bird.

Paul the Pom tried making it in a Nepalese pressure cooker but misread the recipe.

By a country mile.

Not really our scene but perhaps we should have expected it in Nepal. We somehow failed to separate the better known yoga, meditation and chakras from the more esoteric, and (to us) somewhat less credible, added western beliefs that the organiser brought to the table.

Starseeds can activate themselves and through a transformation become connected with their higher selves.

Starseeds provide the missing link in closing the loop between the Galactic Federation and the Spiritual Hierarchies, the Elohim and the Time Lords who work in concert to help our planet.

There are many different birds that don't come close enough to photograph.

The rice is getting riper by the day.

October should be dry but there's been a big cylcone crossing the coast of India that's spread rain this far. The weather is generally unseasonal. Clouds instead of clarity.

The birds are getting used to us.

We've now cleaned the outside, polished the aluminium, cleaned the solar panels, polished the windows, fixed a hatch, cleaned a couple of hatches, and so on.

Amazing what that neck can do.

There's a smaller kingfisher around, but its infrequent and hard to photograph.

The efforts of this Time Lord to communicate with the Starseeds was thwarted by the lack of knowledge of the German organiser.

How can anyone not know about Doctor Who?

I cut a patch to fill the hole.

Plus an ingenious (even though I say so myself) clamp to hold it all together while the araldite dried.

I started the repair shortly after arriving in Pokhara.

Four weeks later, after cleaning a couple of hatches, I found the white tape to complete.

A proper repair will wait until Aus.

Fabian (gathering organiser) was digging silt from the bottom of the pond to put in plastic bags.

Candle holders.

A circle of candles for tonight's gathering.

This one is a Peacock Pansy.

We are now committed to travel through India and Myanmar to Thailand and Malaysia. Thence ship back to Australia.

Crossing Myanmar wasn't possible when we first set out.

Yet to work out the timing. Myanmar looks like mid February. We'll probably look at the north of India then come back to Nepal in January. Then through India to Myanmar.