Khatmandu

I arrived in Khatmandu about 1pm on Friday 30th after an un-eventfull flight from Bangkok.

I met up with my Australian Paragliing friends Mick and John in the Visa queue at the aiport, they had just arrive on their flight from Perth via Singapore.

Now the chaos began.. We needed to fly from Khatmandu to Pokhara and didnt have tickets..
To got a ticket, you have to get a taxi into the city..
The roads and the traffic are dreadfull..

So, we loaded into a taxi and headed towards what seemed to be the far side of the city to get the tickets.

Maybe half a kilometer from our destination, our path was blocked by what seemed to be a street demonstration and so Mick and I stayed with one of our minders in the minibus while John continued on foot with our other minder.

About 20 minutes later a soldier came towards the mini bus and indicated with his rifle that we should be moving along :)

Fortunately the rest of the party returned and we weaved back to the domestic terminal, armed with 3 tickets for the 2pm flight that ws leaving at 3:30pm

It was all pretty simple from here.. We did indeed get onto the plane at about 3:30pm for the 30minute flight to pokhara..
This competes very favorably with the 6-hour bus ride.

We must have arrived at our hotel in Pokhara about 5pm, only to find that the three of us had to share a room for the first night :) Fortunately there were 3 single beds in the room.

It was now Friday night, and I will catch up more next time!