Well it is 2am and I cant sleep because of dam jet lag so thought I would attempt a wee write upon my trip
Dad and I always talked about going to Everest base camp and this year we finally did it!
We left on the 23rd of October (after I went to the Phillip Island GP whichw as just as fun!)
I arrived a day earlier than dad and hadn’t organized accommodation so I thought I would find something when I got there.
I knew all about the taxi drivers and how they attack you when you come out of the airport and take you to a ‘hotel they know is very good’ and how to buy a pre-paid taxi chit, which I did. I still somehow managed to get shoved into a car which I realised later was not actually a taxi (I had been played) and taken to a hotel. I left once I was there, angry that I was so dumb and ended up finding a mint place for around 7USD.
We met up with the rest of our group and go out partying Kathmandu style, which wasn’t really all that spectacular, though we had a pretty fun drunken night!
We were kicked out of two places because they were closing up.
We went for a tour around Kathmandu to the Monkey temple (Swayambhunath), which does actually have a whole lot of monkeys funnily enough, Boudhnath, the river where they burn their dead then push the remains into the water and Patan Durbar square, which was apparently an entirely separately country right in the middle of Kathmandu.
The traffic in Kathmandu is just chaos, there are no footpaths so you walk with the cars and bikes. The drivers know their boundries incredibly well! I was rather amazed!
The bikes cracked me up too, Honda hero seemed to be popular
Pic 1: River with a body being burnt
Pic 2: One of the temples
Pic 3: Streets of Kathmandu
Pic 4: Holy men
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