We’ve only been in India a few days but we’ve already seen a lot. In many ways it’s similar to Nepal, so that was probably a good prep for travel in India. There are, however, some differences that we’ve already noticed. more»

We finally left Nepal after using the entire two months of our visas. There was a chance that we would have to overstay because of a nation-wide transportation strike, but fortunately it ended the day we had planned to leave and we crossed the India-Nepal border the day our visas expired. more»

Royal Chitwan National Park is a must see and do on anyone’s Nepal itinerary. Before the Maoist rebellion, 92% of tourists came to the park, but numbers have been greatly reduced since 2001. It’s really unfortunate because the park is incredible. more»

If you don’t know what that is, it’s OK. A friend/BTB reader/proud Mac owner of ours took it upon himself to make a Dashboard Widget that will help you follow along with Bigtripblog.com! Pretty cool, huh? If you want to download it, you can download a zip file here.

A big thanks to Pat for coming up with that for us. I’ll also add a link to the Widget underneath the RSS links.

The atmosphere around Boudnath Stupa is pretty unforgettable. Walking around and around the largest stupa in Nepal is a mixture of Tibetan monks and refugees, tourists, robe-wearing ex-pats with their prayer beads, and local Nepalese. more»

In our latest episode of BTBtv, we check out many of the sights around the Kathmandu Valley. We’ve got a charmless snake charmer, old temples, cremation ghats, ancient cities, a huge stupa, and lots and lots of prayer flags. Oh yeah, and a few monkeys too. In case you’re taking notes, we visit Kathmandu’s Durbar Square, Patan, Bhaktapur, Boudnath, the Monkey Temple, and Pashupatinath. Enjoy!

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We made this video to appear on Travelistic’s weekly show, “The Map.” It’s their featured video today, so we’re pumped! It might be cooler if you visited their homepage to see it all featured and stuff, but the choice is yours. BTBtv episode 9 will be up tomorrow too, so it’s shaping up to be an awesome week already.

Hey everybody, not much has been posted since the new year began, but here’s a little update. more»