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Monday : sunny
Went next door for a early breakfast this morning. Then took a cab to the bus station. Once this cabbie found out we were from Oz he didn't stop talking about cricket the whole time, funny b*****.
For this bus trip we had proper seats, not benches up in the cockpit. So it was quieter but it still was a very bumpy, long trip.
We did get to stretch our legs and take a break from the rock hard seats at some nice rest areas again.
The trip seemed to be going quicker than last time, but then the traffic hit us about an hour out of kathmandu. It almost added an extra 2hrs to the trip, and then we got dropped off in a totally different place to where we caught the bus to Pokhara. Turned out that it was on the complete opposite side of Thamel. (Thamel is the area we are staying in)
We found out where we were, got to our hotel, and the reservation we made before we left for Pokhara no longer stood. The hotel was full, and we had to go to their adjoining hotel, then they tried to charge us double the price claiming it was peak season. (but we stayed here last time in peak season!) Well after a bit of a ear bashing from Kim and I, we got the hotel for 100 rps more than before just over $1 more a night.
No time to settle in, we were off to book a Chittwan jungle safari tour. Done! We leave in two days hopefully we see plenty of elephants, rhino and maybe the some wild tigers.
After a chat with Laxman ( our tour/trek organizer ) we made our way to a restaurant for some food a drinks. No steaks but the meals were great and cheap, 6 drinks, 2 mains, 2 entrees for under $11 nice.
We then went to the hotel we are checking into tomorrow. Kim's uncle Bob has booked us a room in a 5 star hotel, and it's where we are going to meet him and his son Will tomorrow, before they start their Everest base camp trek.
Well the hotel looked like a 5 star joint, it's going to be a bit of a change from the $5 per nighters we have been staying in. We will have to check it out some more tomorrow. We left a note at reception for Kim's uncle saying what time we are going to be there in the morning.
Then we went to a shop to pick up some groceries, then went back to our hotel to relax after a long day.
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