Hotel Down Town Kathmandu

... or laughing too hard, but most likely all 3. Harvey, this amazingly funny British gay guy, got up on stage and started singing a Savage Garden song A Capella while the Nepali (and ourselves) waved our hands in the air from left to right. This was then followed by an all out Nepali dance party, where men dance with men and wave their arms in the air ever so gracefully. I had one older man that fancied me and kept ...

... in and they gave me a coke as mix. Afterward as we were walking toward our homes, and as he was telling me about his beautiful and smart girlfriend who had died two years ago, I fall almost thigh deep in a filthy storm drain. It splashes so high I got the sludge in my mouth and wouldn't stop spitting for an hour afterward, even after washing my mouth out three times with my new Ayurvedic soap and brushing my teeth. Why am I such a bloody klutz and what awful ...

... to offer the kids. No textbooks, notebooks or workbooks except a few tattered workbooks that look like they have been used for too many years.<br><br> If she could get approval from the government to open the school in addition to her already functioning child centre, these kids might have a future and will have a better future, maybe being able to break out of their families' cycle of poverty. <br><br>While I was there with Meera, a man showed up. He turned out to be ...

... statue is said to dipense spiritual medicine when properly worshipped. It is even believed that a cure for an illness may be accomplished by merely touching the image. He wears a monastic robe, is seated with the legs crossed. His left hand lying in his lap in meditation mudra, is holding the medicine bowl, while the right hand in charity mudra bolds a branch with fruit of the myrobalan, a medicinal plant found in India.<br><br>We nursed the precious statues all the way back to Kathmandu on the bus. <br><br>

... fyi, they prefer dollars and euros to rupees. <br><br>After Pashupati, it was back to Kathmandu and my date with some other travelers for St. Paddy's Day. Strange that my first ever green beer was in Nepal, but that's how it turned out. Best were the Nepali waiters wearing "Kiss me I'm Irish" shirts and funny green hats. But it didn't take long for the bar owner to let us know that the staff wanted to be kissed by the girls of our group, not the guys. <br><br ...

... by the feet in a gang at the end of the day for their efforts.<br><br>We had decided against taking a porter and a guide on our trek, thus going against the advice of just about every guidebook and institution. The employment of such people is a matter of personal choice but the moral arguments for and against represents something of a minefield to the would-be trekker who just wants a peaceful walk. On the one hand, some people think the employment of servants to carry ...