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Kathmandu--Fuck Yeah!

Well, made it to Kathmandu from Dehli yesterday. Actually, it was a really nice flight on Sahara unlike the ghetto plane on Air India from Osaka. The lunch was nice even though it was probably only a 2 hour flight. That's service.

Now we have a basic plan for the rest of the trip which also means we know that we're not going to spend any more nights in India, which we are all extremely happy about. Funny, after Varanasi, Dehli seemed clean.... Kathmandu is already head and shoulders above pretty much very thing we saw in India with the possible exception of Bodgayr.

Plan:
1: biking around Kathmandu
2: bungy jumping
3: if we live, we'll continue onto river rafting
4-7: trekking
8-17: jeep through Mount Everest Base Camp (EBC) and up to Tibet
18: back to Kathmandu
19: fly from Kathmandu to Dehli back home to Osaka
20: land in Osaka

The good news, we'll be trekking about 50 km in 4 days, but we can leave whatever stuff behind that isn't necessary thus making it easier. Still, at 3000+ meters, it won't probably be too easy as the oxygen isn't as abundant at those heights. We'll see.

So, wish me luck on one of the highest bungy jumps in the world. It's off a bridge that's about 150 meters above the river. I hope that I don't chicken out at the last minute....

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I'm just happy to be out of India. It was okay, but my friends said that Varanasi is the dirtiest city they've ever been to and they've been around the world. That's pretty bad. Cows living in the house is not my idea of fun or clean. Really, the guide told us that their shit is holy....OMG.

Whew! Now it's just Kathmandu. It's refreshing.

posted by Bex @ 10:42 PM