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Hong Kong phooey…

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Back to the first world. And in a big way. Wow.

We found a cheap guesthouse – and $30/night is SUPER CHEAP in Hong Kong.  Smallest room ever, but with all the comforts of home – TV, bed, shared bathroom – and close to the MRT (subway) in Kowloon which is across the water from Hong Kong Island…

I’m writing this from a gaming internet cafe. They don’t have the gazillion internet cafes like in Kathmandu. So we finally found this semi-cheap one in Mong Kok which is a where John is updating photos as we speak. Everyone else is playing games. Pretty funny.

I have seriously never seen so much shopping in my life – and the malls are very confusing – probably because I’m not used to them being so big – and some of them kind of lead into another one and into another one…and just gazillions of people. The markets are very cool though. Like they had an entire street dedicated to sporting goods.  And all Jade in another one. 

I can see why there are so many expats here – I mean you can get pretty much anything you’d want or need as in the states. Movies (in English). Check.

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Nepal, final days…

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

So after Jomson we pretty much booked it down the trail and decided to do the easy route through Beni. Unfortunately that also consisted of going through some really hairy landslides (I don’t think I’ve ever talked to myself more) since it’d been raining like mad for like 48 hrs…our final stop before Beni was Tatopani – hot springs – love hot springs – although I could have done without the Nepali men in the speedos strutting around. I just don’t need to see this – big rice bellies and speedos – I just don’t think I need to explain any further…

Anyway, after going through more landslides we reached Beni and with a German couple and their guide and porter, we hired a jeep to take us to Pokhara. Fortunately for us, we decided to have lunch in Beni because an hour before we hit the road a bus had gone down the hill (nobody was hurt! :). We got to the place where it went down and traffic was just stopped as they were going to try and pull the bus up. So we went to the other side of the bus going down, got into a different jeep which turned around and headed to Pokhara.

Pokhara was really nice and relaxing and we did NOTHING! Well, not nothing, but John went paragliding (he didn’t think it was really all that and a box of donuts) – I passed since I’d had enough of the heights factor…those suspension bridges (some of which were a little bit sketchy) and those landslide areas gave me enough of an adrenaline boost for a while…then we went back to Kathmandu (where it totally was different – it’s amazing how you got to a place during rainy season and return during dry season (okay, not really dry, but supposed to be dry)) and the amount of tourists! Wow! But we wanted to make sure our tickets were a-okay and pay for them and all that…we were so ready to leave…Kathmandu pretty much sucks – and I felt like our lungs were going to shrivel up and die from all the pollution (let’s see, narrow streets + being in a valley = hack, hack, hack – people spitting all over the place)…the only good thing is they have all these used book stores…love used books…I miss the library…

We grabbed a cab with Miss Laura who was going to party party party in Bangkok while we slept in the airport (how random that we were on the same flight to Bangkok. Nice economy lounge and everything is open – love that – and then we headed to Hong Kong!

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