First Day in Nepal
Well, the usual hassling happened first thing you left the airport.
I just splash on a 500 R room for the first night...which is about US$8!!!
The room was massaive and i had my personal balcony and roof garden... cos i was on the top floor.
Ok, maybe not personal. But everytime I was there no one else was. Hehe...
maybe i is ugly or something, innit!
A guide tried to con me and rush me into signing a guided trekking trip for US$759 cos i told him i lived in the U.K., and he thought I was rich.
So i said, after being with him for almost an hour, to him that i needed to eat i can't think without food!
And i fled!
So i went to the cafe next to his office and had some food....
Looking across the room i saw someone i thought i knew and so said hi.
He so happened to be from Singapore and said we went to the Army training together... oh well, he was with another guide who offered me US$550 instead for the trekking....again i fled.
Then i suddenly realized a white guy in his late twenties was sitting behind me so i said hi...
His name is Fredrick or something like thatand he is french....he has been in Nepal for weeks and so i asked him for all the info and tips he has to offer...
We then met again for dinner, and a drink and..... smoked some herbs!!!!
He turned out to be a very wise guy... and taught me many things about life... and i thought i was wise... haiz.... well, he was the third french 'gypsy' or traveller i had to meet....But this time i was calm and helped me to handle some of my issues in life...So after a FANTASTIC night and company i left his hotel to mine...it was very quiet and was past 12am and took a trishaw... somehow i realized his was going the the wrong way and kept telling him that , but he insisted it was right! I thought something was fishy and jumped off! He then stopped and asked why and assured me he was to be trusted. So i said to him again the hotel name and took out the name card to show him... so.... i was staying in the guesthouse and not the hotel!!! they are of the same name , except mine is a lot cheaper!!! What a shock!!!
Oh well, anyway... of course this is the second day now as i am writing this.... and i have been to the monkey temple and had a most amazing day! The people here are both beautiful and nice... the building very interesting. The food is actually quite good. I thought I would eat less here... but no....
Well, it doesn't matter anyway... cos i just booked meself on a trekking trip for 18 days.... in the himalayas... i am sure i'll loose some weight by the end of it! yes! oh, and i paid only US$180!!!
Moral of the story is go trekking if you wanna loose weight and never book from the first guide!
Write again in 3 weeks!!!!!!
Himalayas here i come......................
posted by coatyl - sun god at 10:27 pm
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