Some days you hit the streets around Thamel and you feel like a bit of fresh meat attracting the flies. Varied in your face queries like, "something", "taxi", "have a look maam", "good bananas", "tiger balm" etc driving you slowly nuts. If coming at the wrong moment it is tempting to give the finger but that is considered really bad form here. Plus losing your temper which reflects worse on the one losing it.
Ignore the generally quite humorous young guys with the rickshaws and the duck like horns, made from old plastic bottles with a kids horn taped to the end. Just giving a flat shaking of the hand palm to the ground to signify nope.
Grab a fruit smoothie from Just juice and shakes which I can recommend, especially when the power is on. Head over to the Kathmandu Guest House where the Yak Attack is to start today. A small crowd of mixed nepalis and westerners getting their bike gear together and getting syked for the next few days of racing through the Himalaya. The race gathering here but then rolling as a group across to Bhaktapur where the race really begins up into the Shivapuri Wildlife reserve. The race works its way across via Gorkha then around the Annapurna Circuit and into Pokhara. Maybe next year.
Grab some pastries from Mandaps, where after 8.30pm pastries and bread are half price, bargain.
Listen to a band wandering the streets across from the Hotel whilst typing. Pack. Chill out for the rest of the afternoon in preparation for flying across to Lukla to tomorrow. Will be a definite change of scene, nice to also getaway from the smog.
Relocate our gear within the hotel for storage and then to the Funky Buddha for last meal in Kathmandu for a little while.
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