The past few days in Kathmandu have been interesting and delightful! The city's organzied chaos makes exploration easy. This place is a trekker/hippie paradise, reeking of patchouli oil and westerners stomping around the dirty streets barefoot. Wasn't originally my cup of tea but I'll admit, I bought a pair of the Aladdin pants to fit in, no shame!
By far one of my favorite mammals to have met on this Kathmandu journey has been Gi Gi, the cutest puppy ever! This puppy was apparently abandoned and had been wandering the streets but made it's way into our hostel some how. So I decided to name it Gi Gi and then proceeded to give Gi Gi a bath. I spent the rest of the day being stoked that I had myself a Nepalese puppy and took Gi Gi for walks around town in my backpack. Another hotel had a house pug and i stopped by to see where I could get a leash for Gi Gi. They let me leave the pup there while I went to lunch and by the time I came back to pick Gi Gi up, the owner of the hotel had found a home for Gi Gi! A lovely lady came to meet the little pup with me and she fell in love with Gi Gi just as I had. I helped her home with Gi Gi and got to cruise through the city on a moped for a couple of hours with her. Met her 2 adorable children that were thrilled to have a new addition to the family and now Gi Gi is going to live happily ever after! In a land of Buddhism and Hinduism, they say that'll bring some good karma and I hope it comes in the form of anti-indigestion for the rest of the trip.
Gi Gi!
Gi Gi's new family!
Had our first night out a couple evenings ago and I thoroughly enjoyed the club scene. There's a great Reggae bar in Thamel that hosts a Nepalese Bob Marley cover band that was actually pretty good! We met some Aussies dudes that were rad and on a mission to make a calendar of nude pictures of themselves in front of 8 of the worlds highest peaks. We had caught them as they were celebrating their Everest photoshoot and they were happy to share some of the local booze, a deliciously strong vodka brand appropriately nammed White Mischief. The night got late, we got rowdy but I was able to behave myself though my travel companion Meisha effectively made out with a vacuum and managed to come home covered in hickys. So if you see her wearing a scarf in pics, know it's not for fashion purposes but damage control.
Today we did a trek! Up through the hills around Kathmandu valley. It was beautiful. Started off a bit hazy but managed to clear up as we got higher, though ironically after 6 hours of hiking to the top view point, the haze had returned in full force and we were unable to see anything. Along the way was what was interesting though, cruising through mountain villages and farm lands and coming across dead bodies..oh the usual! When we approached this one village there just was a body laying in the street with the villagers surrounding it and just staring. Apparently, it was left over from the night before. A young man had drank too much White Mischief and had died, right there in the middle of the street! I don't know if it was true or not but I feel like I may avoid the White Mischief until an autopsy has been performed. Lesson learned.
Sorry for not back tracking to Tibet stories at the moment but I will get back on it soon. And for a new update on the game plan-Originally we were to do the Annapurna Circuit but we have unfortunately had to divert plans due to political strife and Maoists that are causing problems in the high lands where we were supposed to be trekking. So we're actually leaving tomorrow for Cambodia!! Really looking forward to riding some elephants, checking out Angkor Wat and REALLY looking forward to Brie and baguettes. Thank you France for occupying Southeast Asia in the 1800s! J'taime!
By far one of my favorite mammals to have met on this Kathmandu journey has been Gi Gi, the cutest puppy ever! This puppy was apparently abandoned and had been wandering the streets but made it's way into our hostel some how. So I decided to name it Gi Gi and then proceeded to give Gi Gi a bath. I spent the rest of the day being stoked that I had myself a Nepalese puppy and took Gi Gi for walks around town in my backpack. Another hotel had a house pug and i stopped by to see where I could get a leash for Gi Gi. They let me leave the pup there while I went to lunch and by the time I came back to pick Gi Gi up, the owner of the hotel had found a home for Gi Gi! A lovely lady came to meet the little pup with me and she fell in love with Gi Gi just as I had. I helped her home with Gi Gi and got to cruise through the city on a moped for a couple of hours with her. Met her 2 adorable children that were thrilled to have a new addition to the family and now Gi Gi is going to live happily ever after! In a land of Buddhism and Hinduism, they say that'll bring some good karma and I hope it comes in the form of anti-indigestion for the rest of the trip.
Gi Gi! Gi Gi's new family!Had our first night out a couple evenings ago and I thoroughly enjoyed the club scene. There's a great Reggae bar in Thamel that hosts a Nepalese Bob Marley cover band that was actually pretty good! We met some Aussies dudes that were rad and on a mission to make a calendar of nude pictures of themselves in front of 8 of the worlds highest peaks. We had caught them as they were celebrating their Everest photoshoot and they were happy to share some of the local booze, a deliciously strong vodka brand appropriately nammed White Mischief. The night got late, we got rowdy but I was able to behave myself though my travel companion Meisha effectively made out with a vacuum and managed to come home covered in hickys. So if you see her wearing a scarf in pics, know it's not for fashion purposes but damage control.
Today we did a trek! Up through the hills around Kathmandu valley. It was beautiful. Started off a bit hazy but managed to clear up as we got higher, though ironically after 6 hours of hiking to the top view point, the haze had returned in full force and we were unable to see anything. Along the way was what was interesting though, cruising through mountain villages and farm lands and coming across dead bodies..oh the usual! When we approached this one village there just was a body laying in the street with the villagers surrounding it and just staring. Apparently, it was left over from the night before. A young man had drank too much White Mischief and had died, right there in the middle of the street! I don't know if it was true or not but I feel like I may avoid the White Mischief until an autopsy has been performed. Lesson learned.
Sorry for not back tracking to Tibet stories at the moment but I will get back on it soon. And for a new update on the game plan-Originally we were to do the Annapurna Circuit but we have unfortunately had to divert plans due to political strife and Maoists that are causing problems in the high lands where we were supposed to be trekking. So we're actually leaving tomorrow for Cambodia!! Really looking forward to riding some elephants, checking out Angkor Wat and REALLY looking forward to Brie and baguettes. Thank you France for occupying Southeast Asia in the 1800s! J'taime!
PS-I totally apologize for not uploading more images but those 2 imagese alone have taken me like an hour to upload!! I'll keep trying to get a few up here and there.
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