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Yes, Kathmandu is a real place!!
This is a top pick! After an epic (painful) 12 hour bus journey on 1 November we arrived in Kathmandu ready for a rest! That evening we had our most expensive meal so far (Liz not happy) which cost us £10! The next day wasn't overly eventful and mostly involved drinking coffee and taking advantage of the hundreds of wifi networks in Thamel. Kathmandu is an incredible …
Indra Jatra Festival
Back to Kathmandu for the Indra Jatra Festival where the "living goddess" or Kumari is taken out of her velvet prison (my interpretation) and paraded around Kath. in a wooden chariot. I was interested in this as last year I was taken to her palace at the appointed hour to see a rather ***** 10-year-old girl glower at us from her 2nd story window - …
Laundry in Kathmandu
Flew back to Kathmandu this morning. It is raining heavily again. We are told the monsoon is way too late here. So much for Sarah Palin's dismissal of global warming. BTW we get lots of news when we are in a place with TV and electricity at the same time. Here in Kathmandu we get both CNN and BBC - at hours undeterminable. But we are hearing all …
Hopeful Home
Our second attempt at Mt. Everest fails. Although we are only trying to conquer it by airplane the mountain gods decide today is not our day. Maybe tomorrow? This afternoon Dinesh shows up at the hotel. He is Mark Lamont of Ten Friends contact in Kathmandu. He comes to take us to the Hopeful Home for Helpless Children so I may visit Suman, the boy …
Reaching Kathmandu
Arrived in Kathmandu at 11:30am after being delayed in Delhi for three hours. The flight with Jet Air was fantasic and we saw our first glimses of the mountains... I arrived at the airport with no passport photo for the visa so handed over a vast sum of money for a man to take one there and the, lesson to be learnt here. We were met by a rep from …
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