DJ - Welcome back to Peking to Paris with Carl and Don. It's an early morning update from the city of Nepalganj in northern Nepal on the Himalayan Mountain Range. We've gone from the high elevations and thin air to the jungles, mosquitoes, heat and humidity as we move toward India. Nepal is sort of shaped like a cucumber and we've traveled yesterday about 500 kilometers northwest of Katmandu. We've overnighted by tenting and using local hotels in the vicinity of this remote community in Nepal where the people are very, very kind and very nice. It's in this area where big game hunting use to take place. One of the small hotels has photographs of elephant hunts and tiger hunts hanging on the bar. There's a lot of similarities here to parts of Africa. One has to close their eyes, look around and say where am I? When you look at the dress of people, women carrying commodities on their heads, round huts in small communities, grass thatch roofs, it is all similar to southern Africa. No electricity. A jungle/rain forest type of environment. Lots of insects at night. It's, as I say, sort of a jungle environment here in Nepal.

Our trip today, we're calling early in the morning, on whatever day this is. I'll check my watch here and see and today is Wednesday. We're headed for the Indian border here shortly.

Many of the cars are beginning to show the fatigue. Some of the people too. A few cars fell behind yesterday and they have to retire. The '54 Mercury - '54 Packard - I'm sorry - maybe I'm beginning to show the fatigue myself. We're doing a lot of things to the '54 Packard to try to keep it going.

We just wanted to phone in this quick report and let you know that we're OK and that we're moving across Nepal headed for India, at the end of another 500 kilometer day today. The big challenge today will be to go through waterways, or water splashes as the British call them, where run off comes down from the Himalayas and where bridges have been washed out for the last three years. So we'll see how the day goes. We're only able to give a short account at this time. Nothing specific to reference or any major developments other than we're moving slowing, but surely in the direction of Delhi, which will be our next major city, two days from now. We'll say good-bye from the jungle and rain forest of north central Nepal as we keep moving on down the highway with our ultimate goal of arriving in Paris in mid October. That's this morning's update. Thank you for being with us and we'll see you in another 24 hours. So long until next time.