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we made it!

Sitting in an internet cafe in Kathmandu at the moment. It's all good. Well, all good apart from accidently giving a taxi driver in Bangkok $90 USD instead of 90 thai baht! I basically payed him for 40 trips! That sucked - lesson: dealing with similiar looking currency when tired = bad.

Kathmandu is freaken amazing though. The size of the streets, the constant tooting, the intensity, the tightly packed shops, the laidback shop sitters, the smells, the poos and wees. I've seen similiar in Thailand, but this is next level. Every local I've met so far has been very friendly and nice - although that sounds cliched, it's true. And even though the touts are pushy as hell (but where aren't they), they fall back to joking easily.

Had an awesome day yesterday with a guide around Dabur (I think?) Square. It was well worth it to pay this man, Ranjan Mishra, to show us around the temples and explain the overwhelming complexity of Hindu dieties and religious practices. We finished off the evening with some beers on a roof top with Ranjan, over looking the city and the local temples. He was great - very upfront with everything, intelligent and answered all questions.

We had to get home relatively quickly after that as the power was being cut off to the city at 8pm - a measure on behalf of the Govt to save energy. The streets continued to be busy though, with heaps of people going places and candles lighting the fly-ridden raw meats, vegetables and other assorted stuff.

Enough words...see some more pics at my flickr site.