we're in the hotel room it has been one chaotic morning the last three four days there's been
some crazy monsoon storms in Nepal the roads have landslides on them so we tried to catch
a flight the airport's been closed it has now stopped raining we've bought a tourist
bus for 3000 total Nepali Rupees which is roughly about twelve dollars a piece that's
for two tickets so that's that's a good price we're hoping that we make it back to Nepal
today because we're supposed to be meeting our friends to take part in the Dashain Festival
which we're supposed to leave here to get to our bus stop in about 15 minutes and our
laundry still has not made it here if we don't get our clothes we're not going to be able
to leave either and even with taking the bus we don't know if and when we'll make it because
of landslide problems and road conditions the roads are extremely rough especially a
more rural country parts well hell even in the city of Pokhara they were rough yesterday
I've been to a lot of countries and I have not seen roads this bad before
we will see if our backs and the like can handle it we've been trying to get our laundry
since 6:30 this morning it's now almost 8:45 when we're supposed to be at the bus station
and we still don't have our laundry right as we're walking out of the hotel my laundry
showed up so we have our laundry now we're heading to the bus station hopefully everything
is okay there needless to say a little bit of a stressful morning today
a lot a bit a lot a bit a lot of bit stressful that's our chariot for today now the real
journey begins here's our laundry in our laps because we didn't even have time to put it
inside the suitcases that are now on the roof of the bus literally we were walking out the
door I was gonna leave all of our clothes and we were going to wind up buying nothing
but Nepali clothes to go through India we just wanted to thank the the hotel staff for
really going above and beyond to get us out of there on time the hotel desk staff was
very helpful in trying to get out of there yeah she she did everything in her power to
try to get us plane tickets with our friend Raj owns Aspiration Asia he's the one that
had put all of this itinerary together for us many thanks to you at Aspiration Asia and
we highly highly recommend utilizing their services for your Nepali trip things just
have been a mess the airport's been closed for a couple days we were going to take an
airline to back to Kathmandu because it's only a 25 minute flight hopefully we don't
encounter any landslides on the roads the whole way driving over here everything had
previous landslides it has been raining crazy amounts that is crazy the roads are so flooded
I didn't have the camera going we just went through a river with the bus I always wonder
why these buses had snorkel kits on them but this one does not so we can only go through
a little bit of water from this bus I saw a lot of other buses around town with actual
snorkel kits on it so they can drive through the rivers this is what I was afraid of the
motorcycle yeah the motorcycle went by because he can get by some kind of problem with the
road the drivers stopped he shut the bus off and we have no idea what the problem is
I'm just hoping it's not a landslide or something major like that or we're not going to make
it well that's a good sign it looks like the other side has started moving traffic along
so maybe they've got enough of the mudslide cleared out that we can actually get through
and we've been sitting here for about 45 minutes now keep in mind this is also extreme conditions
the weather has been incredibly bad for multiple days on end so this is not a normal circumstance
but if you do come in the rainy season I imagine this is a pretty much an everyday event and
we're at the end of their rainy season it really shouldn't have been this wet at this
time of year
Wayne took off out of the GoPro to walk in the rain down at the landslide I've been told the landslide is
three to four kilometers up the road so what we're going to do is I'm going to try to walk
up there see how bad the damage is you got the hairbrained idea it would be great to
add to the video do I get to the mudslide before the bus picks me up
how do you say the bus said if he gets going he'll pick me up along the way so not worried
about missing the bus I left April behind because we needed somebody to guard all of
our gear he is a unique bird that's for sure can't sit still not for anything check out
this river see it's pretty thick with muddy water oh man another big truck coming hang
on a second shot of the road here go ahead
yeah this ain't America everybody on the bus in their own language is like oh my God
what a crazy guy what a looney-tuney man i know that's what their saying
goodbye they saved me they have a little coffee shop up right here on the side of the road
got a bottle of water and back out on the walk to see where the landslide goes that
girl was super friendly I screwed up and gave her too much money and she gave me the correct
change back I love it when people do the right thing
right now the rain has increased so he's probably going to be drenched not our bus
my Nepali friend Raj he was telling me that there hasn't been a storm like like this in
20 years trying to walk on the side of the road without getting hit obviously as you
can tell it is rainy and messy out here in Nepal today we caught a glimpse of him a bit ago we're
moving again so hopefully we're gonna grab him yeah man we are going through some serious
mud man pissing off all the cars at this point because roads are so damn bad some nice American
folks I met in the Hotel this morning just passed me holy [ __ ] I gotta walk across
this yeah yeah that's legit I didn't make it to the mudslide before the bus caught
me April's not happy with me the bus thinks I'm crazy yep
what kind of stress what all I did was just get off the bus get this one through I thought
I was gonna make it to the landslide but all I did was get wet feet my shoes are drenched
from walking through the river wow look how flooded everything is that river is breech
who knew there was going to be a crazy rainstorm the sun's finally come out this is the first
time we've seen sun in four days look at that beautiful blue skies good thing we bought
travel insurance we are so far behind schedule at this point I do not even see how we're
gonna make it to my good friend Raj's house for the last day of the festival we're worried
now that we're not going to make our flight to India we missed this flight we missed the
itinerary or paid driver every nights stay we've got a lot of money riding on that so
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affiliate link you can see that building right there that's a restaurant you know what that
building has in it a restroom that's the downside to taking the bus I would really like to go
to the restroom right now not sure if this is the landslide or not just passed it oh yeah
this is definitely part of the landslide people all on the side of the road you can see there's
waterfalls we've got rocks and debris over here
and obviously there's been much more landslides over here in the past as well I mean look
there's some more where you can see it's freshly slid down from the top that the water is raging
over there now you see why all the locals have motorbikes it's much easier to get around
on a motorbike and get these buses tight in each other too and just to make it through
the pass
it's close to give you an idea that's about probably about 10 inches yeah here's where
it gets interesting we're past the avalanche but the traffic everybody's been pushing forward
pushing forward so now we're having to drive off the road just to go down the street as
you can see there's no rules to the road here it's don't get hit look at how big this
river is when we came through here it was not like the last mudslide that we just passed
you could actually see the mud still sliding just very slowly oozing down the mountain
I didn't get any footage of it
I don't know if that came out or not
hey we're back on maybe we're not gonna have to use our travel insurance so we picked up
a passenger along the way so she's been sitting out the whole time that we've been trying
to get through the mudslide so that was probably what how long do you think it's been two hours
at least of a delay
hopefully we'll stop and get the restroom quick see I think up there is where the slide
is you can see it a bit of mud up on the hill fresh mud yeah see that definitely looks
like it's slid right there not too bad of the mud slide that one they didn't have
to do a whole lot of clearing out but you can see how weak the land is yeah it's very
soft it doesn't take much rain well and it was a lot of rain too I mean this is was not
no little rainstorm can see where the water is it's kind of washing away the truth is
is it's not one layer slide it's from multiple landslides the roads were never engineered
and so the land is so vertical straight up and down that as soon as you get a lot
of rain that earth is going to fall so they just manage the road there's no way to even
I mean they would literally have to build a highway to fix this problem from scratch
they can't there's no way to modify this thing to make it work I mean look at this it just needs to be engineered
Nepal is such a poor country it doesn't have the funds to actually design and build these
roads the way they need to be built we just have 25 minutes to get food and bathroom breaks
so we've got to move quick I'm gonna see about getting us some snacks for the road hey y'all
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Nepali snacks got some potato chips anything for me yeah I did I got you some cookies so we've had
this brand yesterday um so we're gonna try this we're gonna try the different one
and then I got a sweet treat for April the rains did not happen near as much over here
as it did and Pokhara where we were at part of the country is a lot drier it's still wet
but hopefully we won't run into any more landslides along the way we spoke too soon we're back
to a stop
this trip it's going to be one long day April's not happy with me
sitting right in front of a hotel with you know what they got I'm sure they have a bathroom
that last that last bathroom break that we did I'm ready to go again we know this part
of the landslide's got to be pretty bad because they let us off the bus to actually use the
restroom oh yeah got an ice cold water no idea how much that is but uh now keep in
mind that this is like their main highway that we're on there is no other way we tried
by plane it didn't work the airport was completely shut down honestly didn't even look into it
I don't think they have a train
is it that big a Mudslide that the motorbikes can't even pass I think so oh wow
there you go we just saw a backhoe there's hope at least until the next one it started
to rain so we got back on the bus they got the air conditioner going again we saw the
backhoe so we're in hopes that the road will get cleared so everybody's back in the vehicles
and none of them removed it is 4:53 pm and we are finally moving April's ecstatic now
she's about fit to be tied i am tentatively pleased that we've moved 20 feet some movement's
better than no money no sure yeah only 77 more miles to go
all of this just slid down wow it's crazy
look you can see how much water is coming down like it has waterfalls
it's been 13 hours we finally made it to Kathmandu we left Pokhara at 9am we made it back to our
sanctuary of a hotel in Bhaktapur it's almost midnight we didn't even look up to see how
many miles we actually drove but I don't think it was over 150 miles it had rained for so
many days and you can see the way these mountains are so vertical water rolls downhill I've
said it in many videos in Nepal it's dangerous to drive down the road in the rain storm obviously
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