Tibet!

The Last Resort, Tibet Border

Lounging after some intensive bike riding!
Here's me at the Tibet border...

Here I am at The Last Resort, an awesome adventure kingdom that borders Tibet.  It is well known for bungy jumping, as it is the only place to do so in Nepal (no, mom, I didn't do it!!!). 

We stayed in well appointed tents, each one perched on a different slice of the mountainside, with crazy stone pathways taking you up into the restaurant or down, down, down, to the lower resort to the spa or plunge pool.  The first day, I went rappelling down 210 meters of waterfalls one day - gorgeous!  The hilarious moment came at the end of the descent, when we had to hike uphill those same 210 meters in our full body wetsuits, burlap sack style diaper on my derriere (in place so you can abseil, or slide down parts of the waterfalls) and soaking wet shoes. Nice. The next day, I biked to the Tibet border one morning, a grueling 2.5 hour ride, directly uphill on wild terrain - ranging from beautiful roads to rocky muddy trails (and everything in between including silt roads).  It was actually a fairly uneventful greeting of the border.  We were allowed to ride across the bridge to the red line that marks the Tibet side. As we couldn't cross the line, we sat there to enjoy the thundering water in the river below, made funny faces to the Tibet guards, then promptly headed back to find more chocolate to fuel our return to the resort.  It was a 40 minute descent right downhill to the resort - incredibly fast, and mostly motivated by hunger.  We fully indulged in gourmet food while there and enjoyed breathing in some fresh, unpolluted mountain air.