Kathmandu II

April 13th, 2010 4:58am - Posted By: Brittany

 April 13, 2010.   One last full day in Kathmandu.  Today we took it easy.  Breakfast buffet, then hit the pool.  The water was really cold, so they must chill it.  The sun was really hot, and Tyson got a sun burn.  We order a Greek salad with a basket of breads.  Yum!  Everest beer, of course.  Then inside to the bar for lunch and to cool down.  I get a grilled cheese and fries and a margarita.  Tyson a club sandwich.  After lunch we head back to the room and crash.  Too much beer and sun!  Tyson takes a long nap and I surf the internet and blog.  We have dinner plans with Taru at 7pm.

Right before 7pm a huge thunder and rain storm rolls in.  It was quite pretty.  We catch a cab on the main street with Taru.  We’re headed back to the Roadhouse for a yummy New Year’s dinner.  Yes, it’s the Nepali New Year tonight.  So the streets are busier than usual.  It’s hard to get a cab as well.  Nepal has about 5 New Years: Buddhist, Hindu, Nepali, Western, and one other, I forgot.  The Nepali New Year is 2067. 

The Roadhouse is packed with foreigners and balloons.  We order and have a great time.  At 9pm, the restaurant closes and they shut us in with these hung metal gates.  Umm…  we havent’ gotten all we ordered yet.  But we finish up and they guide us out the back.  Normal I guess.  The streets of Thamal are crazier than normal.  So much so they’ve closed certain sections.  There are hundreds of New Year’s revelers, but most of them young men.  We get a cab back to the hotel, but because of the road closures, we have to take a long way, on the outskirts of town.  It is a little scary, but we make it back.

Our hotel is having a New Year’s thing, but it’s lame.  We all just say good night and head to bed.  We are all on the same flight to Hong Kong at 11pm the next day, so we have a whole day again in Kathmandu.  

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