One of the symptoms of traveling for a long time is that I am no longer hungry to explore, as you've probably noticed. I spent a week in Kathmandu since I came back from Pokhara (broken in the middle by my Langtang trek), and that's after spending 5 days here a month ago. It's almost as much as I've spent in Sydney, does it make sense? In the beginning I almost didn't leave the 2 streets that form the center of the tourists' ghetto, Thamel. Why would I? There are excellent bakeries, great restaurants, cafes, bars, music, and there are some good movies in the TV in my room. However, eventually I did bother to go a bit further, and I discovered that there's life beyond the "ghetto". Before I went trekking, when my sister was
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