HowardDay 2/3 of my #TravelBlog to #Nepal.
I think I'll do daily threads as that just makes organising my thoughts a tad easier.
I've mostly slept through Sunday (day 3) but I've got a lot of Saturday (day 2) to catch up on.
Landing in Kathmandu was uneventful, dark and cloudy so no views of the mountains on approach, although I could see light from villages up the valley and then the city came into view.
The taxi from the airport was interesting.
Between the passenger seatbelts being tied behind the seat (I noted the driver still put theirs on...), the endless sea of scooters/motorbikes going every direction and only occasionally using indicators, and the stray dogs that inhabit most of the backstreets it was more like a slow rollercoaster than a car journey. Accelerate. Brake. Accelerate. Swerve. Brake. Brake more. Sharp turn. Loop the loop. 😅
After checking in I did a little unpacking, just the essentials like toothbrush, laptop, tablet, chargers, connecting to the WiFi...
You know, real basics of life 😅
And then I slept probably 7 hours until I was awoken by a very pretty dawn chorus at about 6am just before sunrise.
Followed swiftly by the second dawn chorus of scooters, which wasn't so much a dawn chorus as an all day chorus.
I still managed to fall back asleep around 10am. Turns out my body clock isn't that easy to fool.