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Time to get back to it! Hi everyone, hope you are all good. I doing realy well, here in Nepal got here a couple of weeks ago, well about a month truth be told... and it has been reckless scince day one:
As soon as you cross the boarder from India to Nepal you know theres a difference, Its just a whole lot more hospitable. So Met this Russian chap just before I got to the boarder, and after the problems getting throughh customs and immigration (we had no idea where it was, beacuse indians dont need visas or stanps to cross the boarder and the street was just a mass of people heading in either direction!), we booked a couple places on the bus and ran to get a couple drinks, by the time we start heading back to the bus, its alredy going down the road! after a lot of laughing shouting and sweating we got onto it, and I was awarded by some farmer with a chicken, well, he just gave it to me so he could go and argue wth the ticket man.
And we moving again just cruising through town sitting pretty with the chicken and all of a sudden everyone starts screaming, and the bus driver must be deaf cos he carries on flying down the road for another kilo-metre then pulls over, the Russian follows this croud of people out the door to see what the deal is and sticks his head in the bus saying:
"Eeet was ay mathos, fall"
"Thats cool Alex... whats a mathos!?" I responded, pretty much holding the chicken upside-down by its feet cos of the commotion on the bus.
"Yooo eat it"... I could already tell this was going to be one of those long trips! so after a bit of language barier breaking and having a dude on a motorbike ride up to the bus with a goat on his lap, I figured (and I'm very proud of this!) mathos - mutton - sheep - goat! it was a goat but where did it fall from, well app. from the roof! where one of the OTHERS!!! probly tried to chuck him off! it was unanimously decided it would ride the rest of its journey on the bus... it didnt want to eat the chicken.
a couple days after I arrived decided to go trekking and head for Annapurna Base Camp, packed up the bear minimum and went, but what I didnt expect was the rain every day! so mid afternoon usualy between villages the heavens would open and the treks would just, within a minute be a stream of water, which slows you down when you wanrt to be going faster to get out of the wet. Everynight I had to leave my trousers ontop of a fire in someones kitchen just to dry off for the next morning, while I ran around in a towel. Anyhoo it took 4 days trecking to get to ABC (annapurna Base Camp), just before getting there, the clouds dropped and so did the visibilty, so as soon as we ( met a German and a Sweed) made it there was aboslutely nothing to see! but after a couple hours the clouds lifted and it was amazing, bace camp was surrounded and looked down on by these giant snow caps 360b degrees around no photos could realy capture the scale of these monsters that look like a 10 minute walk away but are a good 4-5 day trek. but it was cold, shoooo-weee and I'm glad I didn't go in winter thats for damn sure even though there was some snow, it was enough!
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