Pics from the India & Nepal Trip
August 27th, 2009
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The Big India and Nepal Trip
August 11th, 2009
Barring delays, at 8:25 PM EST on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009, I will be departing from the United States of America for the very first time in my 29 years on this earth. I never even had a passport; I got one just to take this trip. I’ll be flying for my 8th time total (Florida and back, Vegas and back, one-way to North Carolina, and another Florida and back). We’ll be flying out of Newark, NJ to Delhi, India on Continental Airlines Flight 82 on this giant aircraft (click the pic for specs):
Boeing 777-200ER
A group of us are going to Kathmandu, Nepal (by way of Delhi, India) for my girlfriend’s friends’ (Niva & David) wedding there. I’m going with my girlfriend Marta, Marta’s friends Melissa and Christy, Christy’s husband Tyler and their 2 little girls. Meeting us there after a separate flight will be Marta’s friend Meghan and her boyfriend Mark. Besides the bride, groom, and their families, 9 of us are coming from America to attend the wedding.
India and Nepal
Marta and I have been planning this for a long time now. We did the trip to the UConn Health Center Travel Clinic and left with a polio booster, a Hep A vaccination and prescriptions for a typhoid vaccination, medication for altitude sickness, an anti-malarial drug, and some medicine for the inevitable Delhi Belly and Kathmandu-du. We got our Indian visas by mail, and got photos for the Nepali visas we’ll be buying at the airport. We got light clothing, tons of supplies and a shiny new camera: we’re ready.
Our plane is expected to land in Delhi at Indira Gandhi International Airport on August 13 at 8:15PM India time (9:45AM EST) after the longest flight any of us have been on. We’re spending a few days in Delhi, staying at the Hotel Sri Nanak Continental, and planning to take a day trip to Agra to see the Taj Majal.
Nepal
We’ll be flying to Kathmandu at 12:55 PM IST on Monday, August 17th on Jet Airways Flight 262, arriving at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport (KTM) at 2:45 PM Nepali time. In Kathmandu, we’ll be staying at the Hotel Manang. Then comes the wedding itself, where we’ll see these two get hitched:
The wedding will be on held on Thursday, August 20th Friday, August 21st at the Radisson Hotel in Kathmandu.
Finally on Saturday, August 22 at 9:30 AM NPT, we’ll be taking Jet Airways Flight 263 back to Delhi (arriving at 11:10 AM IST). Eleven-and-a-half hours later that day (a last chance for Indian adventures) at 10:50 PM IST, we’ll hop on Continental Airlines Flight 83 back to friendly Newark, NJ, expected to arrive at 4:35 AM Eastern time on Sunday August 23rd. After that, it’s just ride back to central CT and a drive back home. Then, we sleep like babies.