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Published: July 22nd 2010
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Before I left the ashram at Rishikesh, I had visitors outside my little cottage, the ashram cows! They even walked up onto the tiles to see me. More like dogs than cows, they really enjoyed having their heads rubbed.
Then is was farewell to everyone and off at 5 the next morning. Taxi to Haridwar railway station, train to Delhi, overnight at a lovely guesthouse (not many of those in Delhi) then off to the airport by mid-morning.
Flying into Kathmandu is wonderful, it is such a beautiful place, well not Kathmandu exactly but Nepal with all the mountains. Francesca was so excited as we flew in that it was infectious.
So here I am back in Kathmandu and how fabulous it was to be met by Raju and his family. His two children Rajan and Sushmita are what I call my Nepali grandchildren and neither of them had ever been to the airport before, so that was a treat for them in it’ self.
Six of us, I am travelling with Francesca, squeezed into a taxi, with the driver of course and edged into the crazy traffic. Then after about 10 minutes the car stopped! Luckily it
only took a bit of tweaking before we were off again.
Raju had got us a great rate at the Tibet Guesthouse, not flash but more than adequate and at US$15 per night with all tax’s between the two of us we were happy. Raju dashed out and bought a bottle of coke so that we could all celebrate being together again after just over 12 months then he left us to settle in.
Wi Fi, yippee. Not belonging to the Tibet Guesthouse, but the one next-door!
Francesca and I were determined to keep up our yoga and by moving around a few chairs we could just, only just fit on the floor, so when Raju asked us if the hotel was O.K. and we mentioned that it was a bit squeezy for yoga, he took us to a brand new place, that looked too good to be true. The owner is delightful and when we said we could only pay $15, he gave us a beautiful room with a sitting room attached for the same price - low season. Now we can do our yoga with ease. The only problem is that there that is no
hot water, tepid in the afternoon after the sun (solar) but freezing in the morning. (And no Wi Fi) Now we are debating what to do. Do we move again? Will keep you posted.
We managed to buy a second hand Lonely Planet, always useful, and followed one of the suggested walking tours. Amazing! We found little places that we would never have noticed without it. It was about a 3 hour walk, then a nice lunch and back to the hotel for a rest then some yoga. Ah, life is good.
Francesca told me that we should both have pearl pinkie rings, a lot of people in India wear them as they mean ‘peace’, so we set off to look. But nothing was small enough, then Raju told us that he has a friend who makes rings for the shops. He took us to meet this guy and we both chose the design, chose the pearl and collected our beautiful rings a few hours later. All for about AU$10. They are not matching, we are not that soppy!
We also paid a visit to Rajan and Sushmita’s school. The kids are all great and look so cute
in their uniforms. The little girls wear red bow ties! I have decided to help them get some books for a beginning library, they don’t have any, so the principal and I are going shopping on Friday - on her motorbike, here I go again. If you would like to donate any money let me know. Books are quite inexpensive here and for $20 - $50 I could buy a heap!
O.K. that’s all for now. I have sent my Nepali phone number to a few family and friends by email and have also sent sms’s but nothing back so I am not sure if it is working O.K. Did hear from Toby in Bali but no one else. Looks like it will have to be emails. DFor your information it is +9779808623242
Love to you all.
Take care.
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kuku
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nice tour
i thing u are in right place with right people in right time you will gain a loot in this part of world kuku