Namaste - welcome to Kathmandu

With a time-difference of 4:45 minutes (!) Nepal is a different country! Nice and calm people with friendly smiles! But the town of Kathmandu is really crazy! Holy cows eating out of the garbage on the streets, small kids sleeping on the pavement, dogs barking in the night, and motor-cyklist with wild looking eyes horning at everything that moves. And of course: The trekk-salesmen... Everywhere: sorry, sir, what country? How long nepal? Want to go trekking? I've got to learn some Nepal, so i can say nothankyou like I really mean it. Apperantly, that works much better than no thank you in english ;-)
Btw, flight was good. Good food, and the Gulf air stewerdesses on was very nice, serving me beer after beer after beer... but omg, was i furious about getting up at 4 o clock, changing airplain in Baharain! I had to wear earplugs when they played the safetyinstructions on maximum volym... Upon arriving Kathmandu airport, and miraculous getting all of my luggage after the 4 flights, my two friends Malle and Stefan caught me, and put me in the deathride-taxi through the nepal capital straight to the worst (and cheapest!) room in town. We stay at "millenium in" on a dirty backroad to Thamel-district. Yea! Way to go! I didn't go to Nepal to bubble around in jaquzi, so i'd rather stick with the 100rupie-room (around 1 Euro), and have good beer on the balcony, watching the flags of the golden temples blow in the moisty air of Kathmandu valley....

On Saturday we take of for Tibet overland! That means 8 days of driving up to the Tibetan plateu... First day we stay at 2000 meters, and next day we climb up to 5500 meters, which i think will be very hard, but on the otherside, I beleive the reward will be great when aproaching the holy City of Lhasa all three of us in a LandCruicer...