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I woke up in the morning into a severe headache, somewhere around 7 AM. Thought it a dehydration and didn't took a pill, which I should have done.. Only drank water. So the result was a pretty severe migraine attack.. :( That ruined the morning hours, 'cause it didn't get any better untill 11 o'clock or smth and after many strong painkillers. So we didn't get to leave early, as we had attended. Ate breakfast and then we had to go to arrange our domestic flight tickets to Jomsom& back to Kathmandu, and a card&driver to Bandipur and Pokhara. We had an agency in mind, but had lost the particular guys' card ans number, so we had to call in the general number. The Blue Mountain travel agency's manager then picked us up from our hotel. It took quite a lot of time there at their office, ended up with a fairly ok deal. But then when we had already paid, and a guy came back to the office with our flugjt tickets abd permits, the manager noticed that he had calculated wrong; forgot one ways flight tickets. So, we if course first refused to pay anymore, 'cause it was his mistake and his alone and we had agreed and paid. Ha, ended up arguing with him for awhile, almost cancelled everything and walked away to the next office, but then agreed to pay 3/4 share of the forgotten tickets.. Anyway, he didn't get much profit from us anyway, and ended up being really sorry. However, I would NOT Recommend he to anyone. Thid guy from Blue Mountain Travel Agency, called Buddhi Jung Basnet. But one of his workers, called Basu, who is about to establish his own business in Trekking Companies, he I would recommend. Very friendly, and helpful. And doesn't just want to get your money, but also really wants you to have a nice holiday.
So, when we got out of there, it was already so late that wr had to forget about going to Bhaktapur...unfortunately. And that was irritating! Ok, nothing that I could've done for the migraine really, so... But it was irritating anyway. Got our car and driver from KTM to Bandipur (one night there), then from Bandipur to Jomsom, flight tickets Pokhara-Jomsom&Jomsom-KTM (so three flights) for ~ 230€/head. Not so bad, when 1 flight ticket already costs about 76-80$ each (which is about 50-60€).
Got back to our hotel then and just chilled out, had coupla cold beers and ate well. The Tings Lounge served fairly good food, and cheap. It's ownes by a quite fun Danish "hippie couple", who both have got a fairly good professions in the past, then came to Nepal and eatablished the hotel. The man was very friendly and helpful, too. The woman crearly wasn't so much made for customer service.. ;) Both hassled around a lot, so still learning but they we're ok. They had good staff, so they save them for a lot of trouble.
Got to bed fairly early, 'cause tomorrow we had an early wake up and an hours drive to Bandipur.
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