Nepal was my first foreign trip: Amitabh Bachchan

MUMBAI: Keeping the Nepal quake victims in his prayers, megastar Amitabh Bachchan remembered his first trip to the Himalayan country in 1954, which was also his maiden visit to a foreign nation.

The 72-year-old actor said during his growing years Nepal was a dream geographical location and even though it was a foreign land, it had "several universal qualities with India".

"I visited Nepal in 1954. We were still living in Allahabad.

Babuji had desired a meeting with some of his very close literary contemporaries. We flew from Patna airport to Kathmandu, the Capital of Nepal, in a twin engined propeller Dakota aircraft, that warhorse of the WW 2 era, and perhaps those that have interest in aeronautics, the most sturdy and long lasting aircraft to date," Bachchan recalled in his blog.