 He stayed there for two months, sight-seeing, taking part in hunting trips, and travelling by mule into Tibet and Nepal.He also met Gandhi, and the poet Rabindranath Tagore.Koenig-Warthausen left Calcutta on 5 February 1929, heading south and stopping at Akyab and Rangoon in Burma, before flying through a tropical thunderstorm to Bangkok, Siam, without the aid even of a compass.