I am going to stay today (Wednesday, May 14) in Varanasi and visiting old city and some ghats. It’s now 10 AM and already very very hot in Varanasi.

In the evening at 6 PM I am heading off to Calcutta by night-train in the sleeper-class. Arriving there at around 8 AM next morning. In Calcutta I am going to stay three days.

“Innorama”: twitsay.com 

I am trying to use twitsay.com for some Audio-Updates. Just found out, that this is quite new… Let’s see how it works - you can easily check my voice-updates on my twitter-account twitter.com/sugarmelon in some hours…

Today I met Robert and Wolfgang - both had been in Nepal last year (check Wolfgang’s Nepal-Blog here: www.sugarmelon.com/nepal). Robert showed me his pictures from his trekking-tours and with Wolfgang I had some chats about India and Nepal.

There are two possible routes, travelling through Nepal and arriving in Kathmandu.

Route 1 is from Darjeeling, passing Kakarbhitta and then 200 km in the south of Nepal to the Royal Chitwan Nationalpark, where I will start Route 2 (coming from Patna in India) and going forward to Kathmandu. Depending on time and transport and my personal condition.

In Kathmandu I am currently thinking about 2 things:

• Either flying with Yeti-Airlines to Lukla, staying there for one night or 
• doing a round-flying-trip to see the Himalaya-Mountains (Mt. Everest, Makalu…).

Fascinating - it would be great to see those landscape and those mountains about which I read about in Wolfgang’s Blog.

On Monday Morning I am going to receive my Visa for Nepal…