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Reisavontuur: welcome to kakafonia
| Avonturier(s): | Booz |
| Continent: | Azie |
| Land: | Nepal |
| Aanvang: | 7 Mei 2003 |
| Einde: | 9 Mei 2003 |
 fter a week full of stress and parties
back at home, I finally left my house on the 7th of may at 11 o'clock.
Though I was not sure if I was awake or sleeping for the whole last
week, my auto-pilot together with help from some of my closest friends
managed to get everything arranged. All right I still didnt have all of
my vaccinations and I the consulate kept on telling me that i should
need a visum, but the situation was under control. At schiphol airport
I got myself a shot of hepatitus and when i was checking in for my
flights I quickly asked about the visum, and they said that it wasnt a
problem to buy one at the kathmandu airport. So I was ready to go
....
The flights were just beautiful, the weather has been clear
during all of my fights, so i could see everything ... starting with
people sunbading at the zandvoort beach, the city of london with her
enormous variety of lights in the dark, little enlighted villages in
the alps enormous salt-plaines in the shallow waters of bahrein,
enormous sanddunes in the desert near Abu Dhabi and the dry mountains
of india and Nepal. Though I really had to chaneg often I really
enjoyed the trip.
Coming out of the katmandu airport as a
tourist you will be hunted immediatly. everybody wants to bring you to
a hotel, sell you stuff or offer you a free ride to a trekking company.
the sounds are loud, cars are horning, people shouting and even the
colours in the dry dusty roads are yelling at your eyes It's one big
kakafonia of impressions, sounds, smells,people and colours and i loved
it right away.
Luckily I was picked up by a guy I met through the internet, he
arranged me a nice hotel in the Thamel District. And nice it is ! I
have a big room on top of the roof of the hotel, having my own private
garden with nice flower and birds, a nice marble bathroom with hot
water and a big bath. I immedialetly felt asleep yesterday night and i
just woke up today at 16.00. The only bad thing so far,is that i have
this giant cold, I cough like hell (people think i have SARS so even
beggars are afraid of me) and has some fever last night, pretty weird
to have cold shivers when its nearly 40 degrees in your room. Anyway I
feel better today and I wanted to stay in kathmandu to relax this week
anyway, so will be fit next week to trek for one month. This is enough
for now I need to go ...
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