We spent the day today wandering around in a far-away part of the Kathmanduvalley, Bakthapur! We got lost a few times, but saw a lot of the natives so we were quite satisfied!! We saw a lot of the local clothing style and more of the way people live here: their work, cooking, school and children :)
We have also been givin a tour around Thamel (which is the tourist area of Kathmandu) by Kamal with whom we also booked a treeking tour round the Annapurna Base Camp! It's a ten days tour and we will be able to see some of the real mountains and not just the hills of Nepal! ("hill" in Nepal is any gathering of earth which isn't covered in snow all year or just a mountain under 5-6000 meters!!!)
Thamel has been seen by our eyes and tasted by our tongues and we are now aware of the friendly nepalese people who doesn't want to be our friends just because they talk nicely with us - they are ALL trying to sell us something! Matilde and I have been (almost) able to say no thanks to these friendly offers, but today we were captured by a student of the buddhistic art school in Bakthapur from whom we bought our first (and WAY to expensive) souveniers: paintings! I got myself one of the Wheel of Life; a very beautiful and thoughtful painting!
We have also suffered from the very low prices here - we often forget that we could actually get the things for half the prices even though it seems like stealing when they are already so low ;) So we are now a little more experienced and poor and happy and will enjoy the evening with a huge BURGER!!! (we have to enjoy it while we can, we're gonna live on rice and *linser?* for two whole months!!! ;)
One funny thing about Kathmandu is that we haven't seen any McDonalds' down here :O really a big surprise!! On the other hand can't we take a turn on the street without seeing a Carlsberg logo somewhere... It's really funny to see something that danish down here :D Besides this it seems like everybody down here knows where Denmark is - also something we're definetly NOT used to, and it's actually nice !
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I will try to upload the pictures on Facebook, because I can't figure out how to do it here :)
SvarSletSounds great so far! Keep us updated, when I can't travel, travel blogs from others is what keeps my going :-)
SvarSletThe walking out and getting semi-lost thing can definitely be recommended!
Haha, then you're gonna enjoy the completely lost thing I did today then ;)
SvarSletBut yes I agree: when not travelling you need to hear about somebody else's - it's more fun that way :)