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  1st November
First part of the flight from Lisboa to Kathmandu (stopping in Madrid, Rome and Bangkok).

  2nd November
Arrival at Bangkok airport and flight from there to Kathmandu; first impressions.

  3rd November
Kathmandu - Durbar square and Thamel.
Patan

  4th November
Kathmandu - Pashupatinath and Boudnath.

  5th November
Kathmandu - Dashin Kali and Kirktiphur.
I forgot the backpack with my passport in the taxi that left us in Kirktiphur!

  6th November
Kathmandu - getting aquainted with nepali bureaucracy, trying to find a way to stay in Nepal without passport.
Nagarkhot - are those mountains real?!

  7th November
Nagarkhot
Kathmandu - what does a portuguese guy do without his passport in this country where there isn't a portuguese embassy and phoning to the embassy in Delhi is impossible? Thank you Mr British consul!

  8th November
Kathmandu - Thank God that umbelievely some of the endless EU regulations are truly useful; I got my nepali "travel documents" the "nepali way", with the help of that kind young lady of the German Consulate.

  9th November
Kathmandu to Pokhara - 7 hours and little less than 200 Km on a bus made in India. This is the most important highway in the country, are you sure time travel is impossible? Who cares about confort, this might have been one of the nicest bus rides I had in my life! We had the right to an hindi video and all!
   Pokhara is a really nice place, at least for someone that doesn't care too much about its air of 3rd world resort with hundreds of tourists and everything related (hotels, restaurants, shops, and so on). Imagine an almost tropical touristic spot at the border of a lake, surrounded by mountains, half of them with snow on their tops, floating in the middle of the clouds.

  10th November
Pokhara, Jomsom, Kagbeni and Jarkhot - an impressive flight and the valleys of Kali Gandaki and Dzong rivers. It's impossible to describe the effect that these places had on me!

  11th November
Jarkhot, Muktinath, Kagbeni and Jomsom - again, no words.

  12th November
Jomsom, Siang, Marpha - How can the landscape change so suddenly? The area South of Jomsom is undoubtly beautiful also, but so different from the North part!

  13th November
Back to Pokhara from Jomsom.

  14th November
Pokhara to Chitwan - in a bus from sunrise to sunset. The mountain views are gone misteriously.

  15th November
Chitwan - Elephants, rhinos, deers, monkeys, jungle and canoes. Are we still in the same country?

  16th November
Chitwan - more elephants, birds and sounds of a rhino somewhere in the bushes surrounding us. How could I remain so calm?
Back to Kathmandu on on of those busses.

  17th November
Kathmandu - Are the nepali the most kind and honnest people on Earth or was simply my luck working? My passport is waiting for me at the Thai embassy! Thank you Mr Cheik Badur, the taxi driver and all the kind staff of the Thai embassy!
   The end of our stay is too close, I wish it wasn't true. Time to give up resisting to shopping.

  18th November
Goodbye Kathmandu and Nepal, hello Bangkok.
   The happy coincidences weren't over - just before leaving to the airport we met the taxi driver that had delivered my passport at the Thai embassy.

© J. Mário Pires, 1996-99


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