so i've been in nepal for the past coupla weeks
and i must say, it has definately been an experience
gonna try and document this trip via this blog
much like my india one...except i dind't do the india trip
nepal trip is defiantely worth doing though
so the whole reason for me going to nepal was because i was meant to do some community service. me and my friend tagged along with this latrobe group who were already under some program and we kinda....gate crashed it. later found out from the group that they didn't know we were goign to be there until 2 days before they arrived.
we'd never met the latrobe people before....so it was defiantely going to be a challenge to try and fit in
and we were staying longer than the latrobe group, staying at least 10days more than the group itself.
hope i can make this experience a ful-filling one.
day 1 nepal:
so me and fam friend took a plane from tullamarine to changi at about 3pm melb time.
arrived @ changi around 10pm-ish local time
this was a bit of a pain in the ass because our next flight to KTM was goign to be at 9am...the following morning...
that leaves approx 12hrs to bum around changi airport...what dafaQ!
so we ended up spending majority of the time sleeping
there really is nothing to do @ changi airport, or singapore for that mattter when it is 1am in the morning and on a monday night as well.
it was pretty stupdi to have scheduled a flight like that...i have no idea why things turned out that way...it just did
so i ended up sleeping about 4 out of the 12 or so hours we had to spare. and it was not a pleasant expeirence. smelt like SHEEEEET afta the nite and chagned my tee-shirt. think i used up majority of my DEo as well.
but all in all.......an expeirence i would rather not have to go through again
took the 9:40am flight to KTM and arrived at about 1 something....arvo
first thing i noticed aobut KTM was that its pretty much like india
except.....there was less chaos and less rubbish. but pretty much a carbon copy of india, well, delhi anyways
KTM airport has alot to improve on. the international terminal its basically a single building......and that is all.....you have to catch a bus from where your plane has landed to the terminal, and then enter customs...which looks even worse, not a single computer....and then you have to walk up into the baggage collection...with a carousel that doesn't even work.....haizzzzz......
hotel was called shambhala, near kopan. infact its about 1km walk up to the monastery itself.
but i ended up in a room by myself becoz friend moved in with 2 other girls, and becoz the girl guy ratio was about 3:11, we they just gave me my own room......LOOOOONNNNERRRR
first meal in KTM was in the resturant below our hotel,
had momo (steamed dumplings basically), vegetarian. subjected myself to a vegetarian diet whilst in Nepal because you can never be too careful when it comes to foreign meats. also had some tempura vege......weird combo....
had a bananananan lassi as well, tasted really woody and burnt...like someone had burnt something and just sprinkled it lightly into my drink...EWWWWIIIEEEEee
after lunch, walked to a local school just down the road where we met up with the rest of the group. they seemed nice enough. but a bit hard to get to know peeps when you've only JUST met them...and realise that you've gotta spend the next 3weeks with them....AWKS!!!!
walked to a stupa in a near town called bhouda. very very impressive stupa. basically did some sight see-ing and walking around. didn't really buy much because i had no monies, had to get it changed.
our "tour guide" netra, had to exchange it 4 us and hadn't given him my monies yet so i was a broke mofo.
ate dinner at a place called garden restuarant. there we talked to a coupla of the other peeps and got 2 know them. was probs the 2nd youngest of the whole group, the rest had either taken a gap yr and were now in 1st or 2nd yr.
and that concludes 1st day because it happend about 20days ago and now i can't remember anymore
hopefully get photos sooooon--ish
and i must say, it has definately been an experience
gonna try and document this trip via this blog
much like my india one...except i dind't do the india trip
nepal trip is defiantely worth doing though
so the whole reason for me going to nepal was because i was meant to do some community service. me and my friend tagged along with this latrobe group who were already under some program and we kinda....gate crashed it. later found out from the group that they didn't know we were goign to be there until 2 days before they arrived.
we'd never met the latrobe people before....so it was defiantely going to be a challenge to try and fit in
and we were staying longer than the latrobe group, staying at least 10days more than the group itself.
hope i can make this experience a ful-filling one.
day 1 nepal:
so me and fam friend took a plane from tullamarine to changi at about 3pm melb time.
arrived @ changi around 10pm-ish local time
this was a bit of a pain in the ass because our next flight to KTM was goign to be at 9am...the following morning...
that leaves approx 12hrs to bum around changi airport...what dafaQ!
so we ended up spending majority of the time sleeping
there really is nothing to do @ changi airport, or singapore for that mattter when it is 1am in the morning and on a monday night as well.
it was pretty stupdi to have scheduled a flight like that...i have no idea why things turned out that way...it just did
so i ended up sleeping about 4 out of the 12 or so hours we had to spare. and it was not a pleasant expeirence. smelt like SHEEEEET afta the nite and chagned my tee-shirt. think i used up majority of my DEo as well.
but all in all.......an expeirence i would rather not have to go through again
took the 9:40am flight to KTM and arrived at about 1 something....arvo
first thing i noticed aobut KTM was that its pretty much like india
except.....there was less chaos and less rubbish. but pretty much a carbon copy of india, well, delhi anyways
KTM airport has alot to improve on. the international terminal its basically a single building......and that is all.....you have to catch a bus from where your plane has landed to the terminal, and then enter customs...which looks even worse, not a single computer....and then you have to walk up into the baggage collection...with a carousel that doesn't even work.....haizzzzz......
hotel was called shambhala, near kopan. infact its about 1km walk up to the monastery itself.
but i ended up in a room by myself becoz friend moved in with 2 other girls, and becoz the girl guy ratio was about 3:11, we they just gave me my own room......LOOOOONNNNERRRR
first meal in KTM was in the resturant below our hotel,
had momo (steamed dumplings basically), vegetarian. subjected myself to a vegetarian diet whilst in Nepal because you can never be too careful when it comes to foreign meats. also had some tempura vege......weird combo....
had a bananananan lassi as well, tasted really woody and burnt...like someone had burnt something and just sprinkled it lightly into my drink...EWWWWIIIEEEEee
after lunch, walked to a local school just down the road where we met up with the rest of the group. they seemed nice enough. but a bit hard to get to know peeps when you've only JUST met them...and realise that you've gotta spend the next 3weeks with them....AWKS!!!!
walked to a stupa in a near town called bhouda. very very impressive stupa. basically did some sight see-ing and walking around. didn't really buy much because i had no monies, had to get it changed.
our "tour guide" netra, had to exchange it 4 us and hadn't given him my monies yet so i was a broke mofo.
ate dinner at a place called garden restuarant. there we talked to a coupla of the other peeps and got 2 know them. was probs the 2nd youngest of the whole group, the rest had either taken a gap yr and were now in 1st or 2nd yr.
and that concludes 1st day because it happend about 20days ago and now i can't remember anymore
hopefully get photos sooooon--ish
