Today was our touring day. We started our Katmandu tour at 10 a.m. Hereabouts continue to be colorful, chaotic, and impressive.  We went to sights in Katmandu and around. We got to know Hinduizm and Budizm. And certainly, at the same time the nice and poor people of Nepal..

Tonight we’ll be having a meeting dinner with the rest of the team. We are all together with our sherpa friends, the other climbers of the team. If we could make a live connection to Turkey we would have gathered the whole team together.

After the most peaceful night within the last days, we woke up to a Nepalese morning. After breakfast, we first talked to a media agent who was compiling information about all expeditions at Katmandu. After that, the communications, energy, food responsibles and Serhan had a preliminary meeting with Arun Expeditions. The rest wandered in Katmandu streets and did shopping. Katmandu is very colorful, very touristy, and full of contradicitons but beautiful...

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Photo Gallery :: March 29, 2006 

We woke up at 04:00 in the morning and left for the airport at 05:00. Our plane took off at 07:25. Around 14:30 we were at Kadmandu. We were welcome by an officer who takes care of the consulate relations. The cargo went into our hands without any hassle. We left the airport with our luggage. Outside the airport, this time there were people from Arun Trek. We came to our hotel with all of our luggage. Katmandu streets welcomed us colorfully. And our hotel welcomed us with a huge banner whıch reads “Welcome to all the members of 2006 Everest Turkish Expedition”. It was surely an impressive welcome!

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Photo Gallery :: March 28, 2006 

We left Turkey. The rush continued until we got on the plane. Lots of our close friends came to see us off at the airport. We left them all behind, tears in their eyes...
First we flew to Bahrain from Istanbul. But we left Istanbul with an one and a half hour of delay. We arrived at Bahrain around 20:30 Turkish time. We went to a hotel to stay overnight. The rooms where big and comfortable, but we were a bit noisy. There’s no time difference between Bahrain and Istanbul.

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Photo Gallery :: March 27, 2006