Finally an update...

So finally an update... though it is very, very late (already finished Trekking) ...

Oh, so we finally arrived in Kathmandu (sometime ago.. ok, a long time ago), though the trip was not without it's incidents, or should I rather say Delays. The flight to Bangkok was suppose to depart promptly around 13:45 ... but after being called for departure, sent away, recalled, sent away again, we finally took to the sky's sometime after 16:00. Apparently there was some technical issue with the on board computer, which loosely translates to "we have no clue as to what the problem is, but we going to go anyway, after all the engine is still attached". .. at least it gave us lots of time to drink duty-free beer.

Thai airways, is really not bad at all, the staff are friendly and helpful. Fellow passengers however are not always, they like family, you can't choose them, but have to live with them. In this case thankfully only for 11 hours. Had quite a character in the seat next to me, some bloke from the DRC, who was apparently doing a PHP in "science" through Unisa, what "science"... he could not tell me. Now, I can handle a lot things and generally speaking I can be quite patient, but what really almost drove me to strangle this guy with his seat belt, was not the music at highest volume, nor the snoring or occasional fart or 101 other irritations, but rather the constant sound of grating teeth... after a few minutes, it really got to me .... Finally landed at Bangkok airport (the place is massive) and found out that the connection flight to Kathmandu was also delayed.

The flight to Kathmandu was awesome, got to sleep a bit and sat next to a really friendly and nice Nepalese lady, whom use to run a tea house on the Annapurna trek. Kathmandu airport is pretty small and if the bodies of a couple of old aircraft lying to the side of the runway don' tell you, you are in the third world, then the tiny, low roof airport, which takes about 2 hours to process one flight of about 100-200 passengers, with an advert display looping a total of 5 adverts, will (luckily there are only about 2 flights into Nepal a day).

So finally in Kathmandu ... after the almost fist fight at the airport, between taxi wallies (smells like India), we finally got dropped in the middle of Thamel (Katmandu's tourist trap area) and left with the task of finding accommodation for the night, which we finally found... a whopping $6 a night for a room (actually by backpacking standards, this is very expensive, but a lot of the cheaper places were already full and it was getting late).



First impressions of Kathmandu ... looks and works like India and there are A LOT of gear shops, selling knock-off North Face products and other cool gear (fake of course, but cheap).

More to follow ... supper calls.