Malla Kathmandu

... s ATM’s had sucked in earlier.

After the bus journey, my next concern was the flight to Bangkok next morning as the (ex-Royal) Nepal Airlines is notorious for its cancellations and it shouldn’t be the best airlines out there by any other means either. Fortunately, these fears turned out to be unnecessary and I made to Bangkok without any problems. And even the food was quite good ...

... to me as I walked past. He went on to invite me to take tea anytime I am passing. I think he said his name is Chandra. I cannot complain about these people. They are genuinely friendly and interested in learning about me. I like the way that they remember who I am. This morning I returned to the Mandap Hotel for breakfast and the young waiters even remembered what I ordered and said they would bring me a small pot of coffee so that I did not have to pay for an extra cup as happened ...

Much better sleep after Surya put two more mattresses over the stone bed I was sleeping on earlier. Lol. Today we visited his school again, I got on line and typed up the entire budget and to do list in Excel. We did lots of work on the project and needed a break.

Then we visited yet another friend of Surya's.
He's hilarious. He knows a bit of English but he's slightly mute so he acts things out, and makes up the funniest words. His mannerisms are ...

... lunch at a casino...... after lunch i hired a taxi t0 take a round of the city.....the taxi driver didn't understand English....all he said was "yes"....he took me to super store......!!!!!!!!!!!!the super store was three storied(or four?)....each floor dedicated to different stuffs!!!!!from the super store...i took the same taxi and went for a shopping district famous to travelers called 'thamel'. it was basically ...

... way. We met a kosher essential oils salesman who seems to have legitimate products and delicious and seductive scents, Nadine was in his shop everyday sampling his concoctions. Later we sat down like his disciples while he gave us speeches on philosophy and life.

I found some good wholesalers to do business with but had a difficult and frustrating time communicating and also getting them to agree to make my small orders. I'm just testing the market in ...

Today, I was off to visit Swayambhu which is approx. 2 km from the hotel and this temple, stupa and monastery sit atop a hill. Many of the Tibetan refugees come here to pray and make offerings. I will spend most of the day here visining the different buildings, religious relics and listen to monks chanting.

... be dissappointing...sometimes you need an excuse to go back also...

Because...I am coming back! I love Nepal. I'm doing the Everest Trek for sure. I'm going to see more of the Himalayas. This place is spectacular. Just spectacular. And I'll make my parents go to Nepal, because really, as I said, you haven't lived until you've ridden ON TOP of the bus on windy Himalayan roads.

Pictures coming soon...and there will be some good ones. Just wait until tomorrow.

--Jimmy

... trestle table, examining the contents of the few metal bowls on display. When my turn comes, I point to the stringy noodles and the orange sauce of chick peas and then , as an afterthought, I gesture at the pakoras whose batter hides their insides. "Ma masu khanna," (I don't eat meat) I venture. "Ok, ok," grins the waiter and whisks my choices across to the young cook, deftly manipulating his utensils around a bubbling wok.

Kathmandu, Nepal fishtails04

... would appear around a bend in the trail. If they were going up then we would have to stand aside, backs to the wall, and let the beasts pass, which could take some time. If they were coming down then the same procedure applied but you would have far less time to think about it as they sometimes appeared at a gallop. As I had read on a 'Dangers' notice in the ACAP office in Pokhara, it is not unknown for donkeys to knock people off paths whereupon they fall several ...