Hey everyone! After a 13 hour flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong, followed by a 12 hour layover and and then another 4 hour flight, we finally made it to Kathmandu. Instead of sleeping during the layover in Hong Kong we hung out in the Plaza Lounge and ate noodles and drank numerous "Hite" beers. So needless to say the sleep deprevation and the beer put me into a somewhat halucinatory haze for the remainder of the trip. We landed in Kathmandu around 11pm local time, got our Visa's and bags, and went outside to meet someone from the hotel to ferry us into Thamel where we're staying at the Potala Guesthouse. Fortunately we managed to actually find our driver and he got us safely to hotel where we passed out instantly. The hotel is nice, clean, has beds, windows and floors, so nothing really to complain about.
Suprisingly we woke up really yearly the next day, probably because it was the evening in Victoria time and my little internal clock is completely mangled. The goal today is to stay up until at least 9pm to get used to the time change. Kiersten is currently failing that goal by sleeping as I write this. We left our hotel early and hit the streets of Thamel in search of some food... I'll let the pictures take over from here because nobody really wants to read an essay.
Suprisingly we woke up really yearly the next day, probably because it was the evening in Victoria time and my little internal clock is completely mangled. The goal today is to stay up until at least 9pm to get used to the time change. Kiersten is currently failing that goal by sleeping as I write this. We left our hotel early and hit the streets of Thamel in search of some food... I'll let the pictures take over from here because nobody really wants to read an essay.
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| Kiersten eatiing noodles and drinking Hite at the Plaza Lounge in the Hong Kong airport |
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| Flight KA 192 Hong Kong to Kathmandu just about to get loaded |
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| View of Thamel from the restaurant where we broke our fast |
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| Another view from the Restaurant |
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| People washing clothes and brushing teeth in some sort of watering hole |
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| Taking a break from the noise to swing in the "Garden of Dreams" |
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| Garden of Dreams |
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| Durbar Square. We're going back here in a couple days for a festival that involves the mass sacrifices of goats and water buffalo |
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| Chickens for sale |
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| Our first authentic Nepali meal |
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| Flying kites from the rooftops of Kathmandu is apparently a very popular thing to do |
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| Its kinda hard to tell in this pic but apparently the moonsoon season is not entirely over yet |
Incredible pictures guys... Keep em coming! Looks magical!!
ReplyDeleteHi guys I love the picture of the overloaded bikes. Makes my pannier seem very light.
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