Hello again. It has been sometime since I was here and few words of
explanation are necessary. I needed to take care of very important private
case, so that’s why I have dissapered for two weeks. Details will stay
personal, sorry, but I can tell you that I am really happy with the results and
I am looking forward for coming months with new approach towards traveling
somehow.
Where I am now? Sitting in the bus to Pokhara :D I am in Nepal and last
4 days I have spent in Kathmandu trying to get used to this new environment.
What to say about Kathmandu, 1 mln inhabitans, a lot of rain, so very muddy
roads, but fortunately no dust at all flying around. Nepalese people more
friendly then Indians(I got tired of them, so that’s why I have skipped
traveling to north India), more helpful, seems happier even with electricity
cut-out(sometimes even 16h a day, hehe). Kathmandu as it self, another chaotic
Asiatic city, but I liked it more then Indian’s ones vistsed earlier, narrow,
dark streets full of local shops with all kinds of chineese products are really
interesting to walk and getting lost(yes, I tried that J ). No feeling of spiritual world,
few temples are simply lost between normall buildings and markets and it is
difficult to cut from the city noises there. I visted Budnath(biggest stupa in
Nepal, one of biggest in world), nice, but city just surrendered it, so it feels
strange walking around, hearing some prayers interrupted by city noices and
some smells from turist restaurants. I tried as well Drubar Squares of
Kathmandu and Tamal. Very small markets, with few buildings where turist are
spotted and asked to pay the entrée fee’s(I didn’t, because I just used
back-doors and it was good decision as those weren’t worth it to pay for seeing
them). Nice places, with some small rush, some sculptures, kind of oriental
style, but still really small so after max. 1 hour I needed to go to another
place. Then I tried to get in to Temple Pashpantjam(something like that), the
most important Hindu temple in Nepal and entry fee was 1000 RS(of course I
found some back doors), but after several of those in India I decided just to
see it from the outside. I must say, that until now the hindu temples were most
difficult to access, as in many places they are asking for entrence fee’s,
restricted to get inside(Hindu-only) and somehow you are feeling there like
apart/stranger. People are just looking at you with some anger in eye’s, like
you are not exactly welcome there. Maybe this is just my observation.
So Kathmandu is done at the moment for me, I need more quiet so I am on
the way to Pokhara and from here I want to start the Himalay’s trekkings. It
seems that I already found the Company for the first, short – trail one.
Imagine Kathmandu street full of turist busses(around 30 – 40 all going
to Pokhara), me jumping on one of them and inside three polish girls. One of
them is keep saying that she knows me from somewhere(as they are flight
attendends), so first thought from some of flights, then where do you come
from, you know the rest. One hour later we got to conclusion that we made
skiing instructor course together 3-4 years ago in Marilleva, Italy. World is
really small, don’t you think and what made that we booked the same bus?
So, road to Pokhara is better then expected, sit comfortable, some sleep
on the way was possible. What will be next, if everything goes well, today I
will make some paper work with permissions and tomorrow morning we will start
the trek :D
Let’s see how it goes and how I can deal with Himalays J
Sorry for keeping you without any updates for so long, but the situation
required it. As well expect that in coming weeks there will be few posts here,
as during the trekking I won’t have access to internet and computer.
NEPALUUUUU, I AM COOOOOOMING !!!
PS The song of the
month February is “Naughty Boy – No one’s here to sleep” and is dedicated to
biggest fan of crepe chocolate J
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