Liliana’s South East Asia Adventure

So if you didn’t already know I decided a few weeks ago to skip going to Nepal.  Reasons being time and the mini Maoist problem.  Never the less on my way to Delhi I still had to fly to Nepal.  So I catch my flight to Nepal on Thai Airlines and 3 hours later arrive in kathmandu.  My flight from there didn’t leave for another 3 or 4 hours.  Luckely I didn’t have to go through customs.  I found someone to help me and they took me into this nice waitng room with couches.  They went and got someone from Air Sahara to help re Issue my ticket.  I had to pay $10 USD because I change of flight day.  It was already confermed but it didn’t matter.  So about an 45minutes before my flight is to leave I decided to go out and wait in the main waiting area.  Normally glihjts start boarding 30 minutes or so before take off.  So I went out into the main room and it was quite noisy.  Being in teh other room hidden from the outside waiting room was really great.  I sat and was reading the Life of Pi.  Good book.  I actually laid down on the couch.

Ok so once in the main terminal I see peolekl going through another check point for passengers.  I decide to go through the security check point because my flight will be boarding soon.  They had one line for women and one line for men.  Once my bag went through a scanner I had to take it over to someone who actually looked inside all my bags.  I had to unlock everything.  Very annoying if the scanner does that job for them but I had no choice.  So I then walk down the planks to another room that says Air Sahara.  Now you can probably guess that the Nepal airport is not like other airports in that it has seperate gates for each airline.  So I go into the second waiting and wait.  10 or so minutes later perhaps 20 they finally call our flight and take us into another waiting room.  There we wait around 5 minutes for a bus that will bring us out to our plane.  When it arrives we all jam pack in and head out to our plane.  Once there we get out and wait in line again for people to check our bags again.  We are already late for take off.  This process seems like it’s taking for ever.  Didn’t they already do this! Please someone donate some scanning machines to them.  So I finally get on board and can rest.  We arrive and driver from the hotel I’m staying at was waitng for an hour.  Nothing I could do about it.  30 minutes later we get to the hotel.  I ordered room service as it was already 9pm and I was hungry.  I had Naan bread and Alu Gobi for dinner.  This is a potato and cauliflower dish.  My favorite back home.  I think it was curry flavored woth jasmine seeds. 

Well thats it so far.  Right now I’m figuring out the prices to hire a personal driver that will take me around Rajasthan area.  It’s costing more then I thought.  It won’t be cheap but if I consider taking trains and buses it probably equals out the same.  I got a quote for $445 USD for 15 days.  They would then drop me off at Agra where I would then take a night train to Varanasi.  Second class Sleeper AC.  4 beds to a room.  Two on each side.  Can you visualize?  Well I’m going to go now.  I will leave most likely tomorrow as today as already passed and each day I have a driver it cost me.  Ciao

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