tonight on stage exclusively for you: second day in Nepal! Bhaktapur city!
We woke up kinda early this morning cos we really wanted to do a lot of stuff today! So at 9.30 or 10.00 we went for breakfast at the hotel cafe which, since this is the Hyatt Regency, offered us enough food for the whole week! So we thought we'd have breakast, lunch and dinner all together at 10 in the morning! Amazing!
After that, Jaco and I went to book the tickets for our Mountain Flight of tomorrow morning. We're gonna fly over the Top of the World at 8 tomorrow! We'll leave the presidential suite at 6, have breakfast (oh by the way, we managed to get free breakfasts for the whole stay! cos hot water in our suite does not work properly!), and then at 7.45 take off, direction Mt. Everest 8850 mt. over sea level! Im soooooooo excited and lookin forward to that!
Going back to what we did today... we took a cab and went to this medieval city called Bhaktapur. Here, compared to Dhaka, taxis are really expensive, cos the Communist regime poses high taxes on petrol and also does not allow to sell more then ten litres to each car or van. So at every gas station you'll find a huge line of cars, trucks and vans waiting for their turn.
With 16 dollars we got there after a 30 minutes drive through kathmandu outskirts. as soon as we got out of the mini-taxi five or six people kinda jumped on us trying to sell us every sort of things! They even spoke Italian and kept on telling us that our moms would like the stuff they were selling! Dude, we assured them several times that was not the case! But that really did not do much!
These first three pics here are of some temples we found first in Bhaktapur! Here there are different kinds of temples. I dont really no much about the difference in styles but you can talk to our guide-guy (Sir Rojahn) who is pratically a native of this place and nos everything of every single place we go to! Even though we were with him we got this drunk guy who offered himself as a guide for only 4 dollars for like 3 hours and showed us around a bit! He didnt no much but we taught him how to use the camera and took good pics!
Here is one of the first pics our drunkie guide took! As you can see theres still room for improvement but he got better and better!
This is what is called the Golden Gate. Its not even painted with real gold but it looks very cool and it the entrance of one of the three king palaces that are on Durban Square in Bhaktapur.
This one is probably the biggest temple in Nepal or something like that! Its five stories high and the statues at the sides of the steps are: two men, two elephants, two lions, two griphons, and two Gods; and each couple is ten times stronger than the previous one so you make your calculations and see how much more powerful is a god compare to a men in Hinduism.
Here two pics of the one of the most common and probabily most profitable jobs in this city: pottery making. The first guy is actually making the stuff from clay, whereas the lady is just paintin all of them. Theres this one square where all the pottery is laid out in the sun to dry it and prepare it to be cooked.
After Bhaktapur we took another cab and went back to Kathmandu and precisely to Thamel, the restaurant area. We went to Fire and Ice, the first good Italian restaurant i find here in Asia, and had a pizza for lunch.
We then walked through Khatmandus busy streets and checked out all the shops that sell fake North Face stuff! Very cool!
Then we got to the less touristy area of the city and here we found all kinds of shops and boutiques, selling everything, from pashminas to all stars (fake), from meat to spices of every kind and color!
Then at like 6 we went back to the Hotel and went for a 3 km run in the park! Then a lil gym, a cool shower and dinner! Now, its awfully late and I gotta go to bed! Love you all, even those ones who sometimes really piss me off (eh...)! Thanks mom and Dad, this trip is great! EVEREST tomorrow!!!
Nite nite nite nite y'all!
N.
We woke up kinda early this morning cos we really wanted to do a lot of stuff today! So at 9.30 or 10.00 we went for breakfast at the hotel cafe which, since this is the Hyatt Regency, offered us enough food for the whole week! So we thought we'd have breakast, lunch and dinner all together at 10 in the morning! Amazing!
After that, Jaco and I went to book the tickets for our Mountain Flight of tomorrow morning. We're gonna fly over the Top of the World at 8 tomorrow! We'll leave the presidential suite at 6, have breakfast (oh by the way, we managed to get free breakfasts for the whole stay! cos hot water in our suite does not work properly!), and then at 7.45 take off, direction Mt. Everest 8850 mt. over sea level! Im soooooooo excited and lookin forward to that!
Going back to what we did today... we took a cab and went to this medieval city called Bhaktapur. Here, compared to Dhaka, taxis are really expensive, cos the Communist regime poses high taxes on petrol and also does not allow to sell more then ten litres to each car or van. So at every gas station you'll find a huge line of cars, trucks and vans waiting for their turn.
With 16 dollars we got there after a 30 minutes drive through kathmandu outskirts. as soon as we got out of the mini-taxi five or six people kinda jumped on us trying to sell us every sort of things! They even spoke Italian and kept on telling us that our moms would like the stuff they were selling! Dude, we assured them several times that was not the case! But that really did not do much!
These first three pics here are of some temples we found first in Bhaktapur! Here there are different kinds of temples. I dont really no much about the difference in styles but you can talk to our guide-guy (Sir Rojahn) who is pratically a native of this place and nos everything of every single place we go to! Even though we were with him we got this drunk guy who offered himself as a guide for only 4 dollars for like 3 hours and showed us around a bit! He didnt no much but we taught him how to use the camera and took good pics!
Here is one of the first pics our drunkie guide took! As you can see theres still room for improvement but he got better and better!
This is what is called the Golden Gate. Its not even painted with real gold but it looks very cool and it the entrance of one of the three king palaces that are on Durban Square in Bhaktapur.
This one is probably the biggest temple in Nepal or something like that! Its five stories high and the statues at the sides of the steps are: two men, two elephants, two lions, two griphons, and two Gods; and each couple is ten times stronger than the previous one so you make your calculations and see how much more powerful is a god compare to a men in Hinduism.
Here two pics of the one of the most common and probabily most profitable jobs in this city: pottery making. The first guy is actually making the stuff from clay, whereas the lady is just paintin all of them. Theres this one square where all the pottery is laid out in the sun to dry it and prepare it to be cooked.
After Bhaktapur we took another cab and went back to Kathmandu and precisely to Thamel, the restaurant area. We went to Fire and Ice, the first good Italian restaurant i find here in Asia, and had a pizza for lunch.
We then walked through Khatmandus busy streets and checked out all the shops that sell fake North Face stuff! Very cool!
Then we got to the less touristy area of the city and here we found all kinds of shops and boutiques, selling everything, from pashminas to all stars (fake), from meat to spices of every kind and color!
Then at like 6 we went back to the Hotel and went for a 3 km run in the park! Then a lil gym, a cool shower and dinner! Now, its awfully late and I gotta go to bed! Love you all, even those ones who sometimes really piss me off (eh...)! Thanks mom and Dad, this trip is great! EVEREST tomorrow!!!
Nite nite nite nite y'all!
N.
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