Excitement for Nepal was off to a slow start while the hour long wait for our Visa issue at the airport was backed up by the onslaught of expecting faces as we ventures across the sea of Nepalese bag handlers who were all expecting a tip (still not quite sure how it took 8 people to carry each bag).
Our ride down to the tourist area of Kathmandu called Thamel, was a bumpy one as we bumbled through the maze of traffic on a semi dirt road. The potholes were large enough to swallow a wheel, which proved difficult to avoid in the haze of dust and mayhem of cars, weaving in every which direction. As a developing country I am now sure that they are yet to introduce any kind of comprehensible rod rules and simply rely on the horn to indicate every traffic manouver.
Hotel Family Home as recommended in the glowing reviews on trip advisor provided us 3 'deluxe' rooms with ensuites. Mine was on the 8th floor and featured a single bed for each of the 3 nights we stayed before the trek. Breakfast was up on the rooftop terrace an was an open menu included in the very reasonable room price ($27aud), the only setback being a slight language barrier resulting in varying degrees of accuracy such as 3 full breakfast servings when Ben asked for 3 eggs on his meal.
The undisputed winning dish so far is Momo's which we had read about being a popular serving in the guesthouses (or tea houses as they are referred to) on the trek. Each dish is a small bowl of some orange spicy sauce surrounded by dumplings filled to order. Our favourite to date was a spinach pastry filed with a chicken mix, seriously tasty and has our hopes high for trekking meal time.
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