Just to let you all know, i am currently leaving thailand and going for 1 month to Laos!! I m crossing the border tomorrow, i have one more page in my passport. Hopefully i will be fine!!

At 11am we enter the train, on one side of the main alley there is one bed and 1 suspended folded bed. Perpendicular to the beds, on the other side of the main alley, there are 6 more beds. 3 on each side of a tiny corridor.  We get to our seats; we have the upper left and right bed. We drop or bags and notice that the lower bed in the alley is not taken! Great! We don't have to spend the day perched on the top bed; we can look out the window!!

2hours later, of enjoying the views and catching up in our travel journal, a family of 4 arrives! The mother is maybe 20years old, the children are 2 and 4 years old!! What a nightmare! The owners of the lower beds give us room to sit. The family of 4 sits down on their bed, the younger child starts playing with a music toy!! These toys should be band in public! The mother starts playing with her phone rings, testing them one after another. The father is sleeping of course! Nuv looks at me and says this better not go on for 3 days!!! We will have to pray hard!!

Deprived of a window, i alternate between writing and reading, thank god the book is good! During the ride there are constantly venders passing with fried banana plantains, other fried goods, water, milk tea, magazines, toys and candies but of course no chocolate!! At a station we can yell out the window to a fruit vender and he will give you what you want. Sometimes they are even running by the train till you get your money out! After continuously eating since there is nothing else to do, garbage is pilling up! We ask the others what they did with their garbage since they have none. They take our bag and throw it out the window!! We are shocked!! They then tell us not to throw garbage when we are at a station! What i understood of it is don't dirty the populated areas, only pure nature!! Apparently people pick it up! It must be true because at the quantity of garbage people are throwing out, there is not that many bags visible by the train tracks.

Finally the children are asleep, a moment of peace! WE were still in the north when we slept the first night. The next day was much warmer and we had to continually move around with a scarf on our shoulders to be appropriate! Mine was made of wool! We spent most of the day on our beds, i read, Nuv was completely knocked out by the heat, she just kept on sleeping!!

The next morning Nuv wakes up and tells me she has a problem, she turns around and she had slept on bananas that we had bought the night before! They were completely squished on her back!! It was disgusting!! We cleaned her bed and then she went to change.

During the entire day i kept checking the map, we were so close to destination but we were never arriving. Suddenly the man sitting under me said he was getting off at the same stop as us and he would tell us when to get off. Then he said that the train does not go in a strait line, it will be going to other villages so we will only arrive at approximately 6pm!! For god sakes, still 7h to go!! My is has become pure marmalade!! I'm so into my book that i am  even preventing myself to drink so i won t need to get off the top bed and go to the toilet!! Finally at 19h00 we arrive in the state of kerala, in kollam. We find a ymca and decide to check in. We even get a meal (delicious) that cost 1$ for both of us!!

In the room we have a private bathroom with hot water! What a luxury!

Finallement LouLou, ce n'est pas trop penible quand tu as un bon livre!! On survi a tout :)

Once again i am back in delhi! This time my impression is very different. It doen't seem as polutted and there are wonderful buildings all around but once again i did not get a chance to visit any of them!

The next morning following my arrival we drove Robine, the girl i met on the plane, to her guest house. Last night she stayed with us at Nuv's father's apartment. The guest house was in the tibetan section of delhi. An alley behind a main highway. When you entered the alley you get the impression you just changed country! The people are tibetan and the shops only sell tibetan objects!! Wow! All the souvenirs i got from tibet, i could have bought them here!

Afterwards we were informed that we had to go to a temple to witness the first meeting of her cousin's arranged marrige! The parents had met earlier this mornning to discuss the dowery. At noon they came to  an agreement and a meeting at a temple was arranged. The two futur weds, were meeting for the first time! Following the 15min meeting, both parties had to inform their parents if they agreed!!

Very different system from us!! They both accepted and we went to an engagement supper to celebrate!! Short and sweet!

The next day it took 6h just to reach the train station, sort our destination and buy our train tickets for southern india! It was quite an adventure in itself just to find tickets! Our first choice was to head to Goa, the beautiful beaches of india! All the trains were booked, we tried finding a new route and every time we had to go back to the end of the line! The men at the reservationcounter were so anal, instead of just finishing with us, they would send us back to the information counter to find a destination then we had to go back to the reservation counter to book!! What a shity system! Finally we booked to Kerela region, the extreme south of india! We will leave tomorrow at 11am for a 52h train ride!! That will be something!

For now i just want to wish you all a great white xmass and happy new years!!!! I am currently in southern india and leaving tomorrow for Thailand where i will meet up with KEV :)!!

I have been really bad for updating the site. My new years resolution, keep it up to date!!! :)

See you all soon and thanks for the messages :)

I wake up at 8am, Tamar is leaving for the airport. I have to get going, i have a huge day ahead of me. I need to eat breakfast, buy 2 pair of pants (1 for nuv and the other for me), get to the immigration office for 11am and get my visa by 13h00 to make it at the airport 2 hours prior my flight. It should all work out!!

Joe, the British who is also staying at Arjun's offers to take me to the immigration office since i have no idea where it is. In turn, i invite him to breakfast. We head to thamel (major shopping area) to look for the pants. The closest store is selling them double the price, i have no time to bargin and i don't remember where we had seen them for 11.50$. Ok i decide to forget about the pants for now and go eat breakfast. At 11 we are at the office. I start filling out the forms for a new visa and i have a 2$/day fee for each day i was in the country with an invalid visa! In all it comes up to 90$. The clerk tells me to come by at exactly 13h00 to pick up my visa because the office will close at 13h15. Before leaving, Krishna arrives, one of my other friend who was sent by Arjun to pick up my plane ticket this morning. He hands me my ticket and we all go hunting for the pants. On the way we notice some show is going on at the university. We all want to go check it out!! Different presentations are being showed. It ranges from politics, religion, woman in society and extreme sports!! They all seem interesting but i have no time. We head towards thamel. It is already 12h30. I have to find a store that sells the pants now! Of course, on my right there is a store with fix prices and the pants are set for 12.00$. Great!! i now have 5 min to try them on and pick the colors! At 12h45 i look at Joe and tell him "we won't make it!". He encourages me to run. In the polluted streets of Katmandu, we crossed town running!! Joe was holding my purse and bag while i had my camera and scarf! We arrive at 13h02, the man who holds the key to the passport cabinet is gone!! The man who is there offers to call the other man. There is no answer; I’m doomed to stay in Katmandu!!!

Krishna arrives and decides to call the man from an outside line instead of calling from the immigration bureau! While i'm sipping on a milk tea and cursing at myself, Krishna comes back and tells me the man is on his way, i just need to pay his taxi!! No problem i thought!

I finally get my passport at 14h00!! I should have already been at the airport. Quickly i jump into a cab. The flight has been delayed and it gives me just enough time to call Nuv and confirm she will be picking me up! Finally i could breathe!

On the plane i met a girl named Robin who has been doing Himalayan studies in the Tibetan villages. She ended up coming with me to nuv's father's house. I finally made it to Delhi!! What a day.

We spent, Nuv and i , 5 days in Kathmandu for mostly christmass shopping and enjoying the citie's livelyness and especially the food! We were so tired of eating the samething for the past month!! 

After being dragged into exporting diamonds (we refused), wedding proposals (we refused) and buying plenty of gifts we were glad to be leaving this great town. On the 6th, we sent a package to canada and ran to catch our 48h bus ride to India. 24h later, having crossed bumpy roads, changed 4 times the tires, stopping for mechanical reasons and stopping for security check points, we finally make it to the border! First the foreigners have to go through. We are 4. I am the last one to pass. They check my passeport, my nepal visa expired and they are accepting no bribe!!! Nuv already got stamped her passeport and therefore must leave the country!! SHIT!!!!  After 1h argueing, the bus leaves. The plan is that nuv waits on the other side of the border with the luggage till i go back to kathmandu and back again to the border!!  While they leave i wait in the office. The man is preparing documents for me incase i have issues in kathmandu. 1/2 h later Nuv re appears and tells me in french "no one checks the passeports on the indian side, try to pass this man without being seen!" Is she out of her mind, i could go to prison! Ofcourse i do think of the possibility. I really don't want to get onto a local bus. The problem is that this man at the border's office will be escorting me to the bus !  I tell her to leave for delhi with all the luggage and i will manage to meet her there!. She gives me her father's phone number and once again she is gone. I am escorted by ricksha to the bus terminus. On the way i see a ricksha pulling a mimi vehical filled with kindergarden children. There are 6 kids standing side by side!!

Back on the bus!! This time it is the local bus, even worst than the other one! The night falls, it is freezing and i have nothing with me!! The man beside me, offers me a blanket, i accept gratefully. I didn't know that ment he would try to touch my leg. I ended up spending the rest of the night hitting him!! It was an interesting ride.

I finally reached Kathmandu at 15h but the immigration office was closed!!!! I was so fed up, i decided to book a flight for the next day at 16h00.  That evenning i emailed nuv and saw she had asked me to go buy a pair of pants we had seen. Tomorrow will be a great day, i will leave Kathmandu!!

We finally cross the path with the help of a Tibetan and nepali guide. They each had a group but they kept an eye on us to make sure we stayed on the trail. The main thing that we did not know was that you DO NOT SEE THE GLACIER FROM THE TRAIL! Something they should have said in the guide book.

The day went by very quickly, the pass is quite steep but once on top the view is rewarding!! We then crossed a white glacier. ''It feels like Canada!!" We picnicked at the foot of amadablom, ate chipati and nak(femal yak) cheese. We then stopped in Dzongla, in the same lodge as the French group we previously met in Dragnak.

The next day we were in Gorak shep, the last town before reaching the base camp. We spent 2 days there. We did the base camp which is really not that spectacular when there are no climbers. You see the kumbo ice fall where the climbers start their climb, but you do not see Everest! The next day we did Kala Pattar! Incredible!! We actually did it twice, once in the day and then for sun down. We get a superb 360deg view! Of course we also get to see Everest very clearly!

On the way down we took it really easy! Stopped in a few towns, did one more peak and visited the largest monastery in the region (tengboche monastery).

On the 31t, we wake up with the goal of reaching Lukla by night fall, to catch at early flight the next day. On our way, at aprox 15h we see a beautiful monastery build into a cliff. You can only see the door. We are 1hour from lukla and 15min away from the monastery. We decide to do a quick halt by the monastery. Of course nothing is ever simple! A boy told us the monastery was up the mountain and to follow the path. Every few meters, the path divides into 6 new trails. After a few minutes the path is non existent!! We are marching though bushes! There is no one around. We keep heading towards the monastery. Wrong choice!! We arrive at the foot of huge boulders leading up to the temple. We try climbing there is no way up.  What was suppose to take 15min took 1h1/2 and we are still quite far!! We start yelling "HELLO". From the top of the mountain, a nun and a woman show up! They start yelling in nepali, laughing and pointing into another direction. We decide to follow their directions. When we are about to take a wrong turn, they yell louder!

Night has fallen and we are finally at the monastery but we can only visit tomorrow. The nun invites us to sleep there! It is a great way to finish off the trip. We ate in her tiny bedroom while her sister was cooking in the other tiny room. While we ate the nun prayed, she then told us to go to bed, it was18h30!!

At 6am we were awaken for breakfast, tea and Tibetan bread. We then visited the monastery and headed down. We even were able to catch a flight out of lukla that same day!!

Hey all!!! I have been disconnected for an entire month but i'm back!!! It was an amazing experience!!!!!!!! How can i sum up an entire month of adventures??

It all started on October 31st, Halloween!!!! We still had no clue we would be in Lukla in a few hours.  At 6h30 am Arjun comes in the room and wakes me up. He says if we leave in 20 min for the airport he can get us a flight to Lukla (the starting city for the everest base camp). Half asleep i wake up Nuv (friend from canada who wants to do the trek) and ask if she could be ready. At this point nothing is packed. The day before we had bought food and clothes for the trek and everything was on the floor by our bags! We look at eachother and suddendly we burst out of bed and like mad womens we try to fit everything in our bagpacks!!! We take minimal clothing but we decide to pack all the food, chocolate, nuts, juice powder, power bars, tea, cookies etc and ofcourse a huge medical kit. Let me reminde you we no longer have a porter but that idea escapes our mind.  20 min later we are out the door scooping the roads for a taxi and 4hours later we are getting on the plane!!!

The plane is tiny. There are 14 seats and there are no doors isolating the pilots. We sat on the left side of the plane to get the best view of the Himalayan mountains. The first view was breath taking. We are in this tiny plane passing quite close to all the peaks. It is spectacular!! As we arrive in Lukla, we see from the pilot's window that the landing deck is very short and uphill. We land and are going full speed towards a cement wall!! Since the landing deck is uphill we actually slow down much quicker and withing a few meters we are stopped. It is impressive!! I think it is the only airport with that design!

As we get off the plane we are surrounded my Nepalies that are offering their services as porters and guides. Do they have experience? We have no idea. We decide to quickly keep going and head for the trail. It is approximatly  noon and are starving, we head to the next town to eat fried noodles and fried rice. Yummy, Yummy! Half an hour into the walk we are already complaining of how heavy are our packs. They are close to 20kg each!!  We choose to stop in Phadking for the night and most importantly empty our packs or else forget everest!! We succeed in removing 10kg, 5kg each and place them in a bag that we will pick up on our way back!!!  That night we meet Rita from portugal and Denis from Germany and plan to meet them tomorrow morning. We also meet Martin from Slovakia.

Next morning we all find eachother, Rita, Denis, Nuv and i at a monestary off from the main trail. We are invited by Pasang, a monk to join them for tea. Ofcourse, we do so! We end up eating soup and drinking tibetan tea (butter tea by the way i hate that tea. It is pure butter, salt and milk). Denis is nice enough to drink rita's and my cup of tea along with his! We then get a tour of the monestary and end up in Panang's room where we are served apples and tea once again!! We have an amazing 1/2 hour conversation with a monk that slightly speaks english. We all had a great time. At 13h we had to head into the main monestary for a religions ceremony that we decided to attend! During the ceremony all the monks are seated on the floor chanting prayers,playing the drums, the flute and constantly drinking tea! This time it was milk tea, a sweet drink that i learned to love!Towards the end of the ceremony there were food offering being made by the monks.   At 15h00, it is finally break time and we are once again invited to eat. This time it is Dal bhat, the nationnal nepali dish (lentils and rice). We ofcourse accepted and eat once again! Afterwards we headed to benkar.

By Novemeber 2nd we ar in Namche at 3400m. We spend 2 days exploring the tibetan market, exploring the capacities of my camera, aclimatizing and taking a well deserved shower! The shower is a rectangular box detached from the main house with an inverted container connected to a foset. The water in the container is boiled water so beware, it is HOTTT! The shower itself is great but the stepping out of the box at -10deg soaked is less enjoyable!!

After being well aclimatized, We then head to Kumjung. It is then that i get my first glimse of Everest. What a disappointment! M.Amadablom is much more impressive eventhough it is only approx. 7000m high. It is the shape of a k-9 tooth! Apperently much more techincal to climb than everest. Everest seems so tiny from a distance.  Once in Kumjung, we visit an elementary school and play tag with the kids. I have to admit that running at 3700m above sea level made me realize i was far from being 100% aclimatized!! My heart was beating and my head was pounding. I decide to rest and enjoy a sweet dessert at the bakery ( bakeries are luxuries in the montain something i didn't know yet). We all feet relitively good except for Rita who pops in her first dimox pill (altitude pill).  The next day we head for phortse Tenga but it is Denis's turn to be sick. We end up stopping in Mong instead.  He has diahrea and eventhough we only walked 2hours, he has no energy to continue!! We are now at 3900m. That evenning we meet a naplie (sherpa) historian who studies the sherpa culture and tries to conserve it by writing a book with all the traditionnal songs and stories told in the mountain. He also owns a meusem near phortse which has in it's collection the inprint of a yeti! Maybe we will get a chance to go see it on our way down!!

After spending 2 days in Luza at 4400m for aclimatization reasons once again, we head to Gokyo but in the afternoon Rita has a terrible headache. We turn back a go to the nearest town, Na at 4410, which is not a big change from the previous night!  The next morning Rita and Denis go back to Machermo to see the doctor, they are both concerned with their health! We, on the otherhand, sleep in, wait and enjoy our first snow storm!! Upon their arrival we head to Gokyo. 2hours later we are in Gokyo and thank god my hands are completely frozen!! I didn't even take the time to contemplate the 3 sacred lakes. They are beautiful but i am just too cold.

As i enter the lodge i see Rita and a few other fellows we had crossed on our way up! It was cool to know so many people in such a far away place. We spend the evenning chatting and eating in the warmth!! It feels great. Not all the lodges have efficient wooden stoves!!

We spent 8 days in this little paradise. It is by far my favorite area of the everest region! We got to see 5 sacred turquise lakes, everest from a distance and beautiful sunsets! We met great people from all over. A 65 year old woman was waiting for her husband(67 years old) who was climbing Amadablem mountain, an extremely technical mountain!!! That is impressive!

Rita and Denis left a day before we did. That last day we relaxed, did laundry and bought cheese for the next few days.

The 17th, we leave for the great chola pass. We were told once you pass the last town, it takes 10 to 12 hours to do the pass. We planned on leaving at 6am, cross Dragnak (last town before the pass) and then do the pass but ofcourse we ended up chatting away with the other trekers and finally left at 8am. Since i hadn't taken pictures of the 2nd lake on my way to gokyo, we stopped for a while before heading east.

It is 10am we are still on the way to Dragnak, crossing a valley of glaciers! Wow i thought i was on mars! The glaciers are covered with white sand. You would think you are walking by the ocean. When you dig a tiny bit, the ground is pure blueish ice!! It is magnificent. There was a pond in between 2 glaciers, we decided to suntan and eat lunch! Forget the pass today, this is too beautiful to quickly head through!

Next morning is the big day! We pack some chipati (indian bread) and head out. All the groups have already gone. We cross a valley, climb a mountain and reach a big rock with some sort of indication. We no longer see a trail, we look aroud and to our left, along the ridge of the mountain we are currently on, at the end of the valley, there is a huge glacier, sadle shaped! This corresponds to the book's discription. Great, lets go towards it!  2, 1/2 hour later we are at the end of the vally looking up to a cliff, on the right are piles of rocks which seem to lead to the glacier, on the left, there seem to be no way up!. Ok still no trail. We decide to confront the right side. We start scrambling onto the rocks. IT is not too steep but the rocks are completely unstable! Great time for an avalanch. At 13h we reached the glacier but still no tracks! NOw that we are quite high, it is easier to reach the left side of the glacier and search for a path!. At 16h00 we are still searching for the stupid trail. I am convinced that we are in the wrong area but nuv seems so sure this is the pass!  We notice the sun comming down, there is only one thing left to do, turn back, head back to dagnak and start again tomorrow.

Shit!!! if we go down the same way we came up, it would take hours cause we were on the opposit side of the glacier! We have to find a new way down following the crevesis on the slippery, steep rock face! Nuv is ahead stuck on the cliff! I must remind you we are also carrying a 15kg backpack! I yell at nuv, " Let's pitch our bags down the cliff, we might have a better chance of getting down". She agrees and goes first. Her bag rolles down and off the cliff out of our site. My turn. While seeing the bags roll i tell myself, if we do one wrong move, it will be us rolling down!

I am squating on the rock surface, my fingers diging deep into a crevis, i am aiming to place my foot in the next crevis a few feet down. It takes me a few minutes and some incouragement from Nuv to let go and slide for it.

Finally by 17h00, 15min before sundown we are off the rocks. Now we search for our bags.

During this little adventure, Nuv broke her water bottle, i lost a pole and a water bottle. At least we were safe. We headed back in the dark and arrived at 20h30. What a long day! We were starving and therefore ordered the best meal, Dal bhat (nepali meal, lentils, rice and veg, with multiple servings)!!

I was hoping to leave lhasa the 24th but it was the 23th and no sign of a cheap lift! The only offer given by the travel agency was a 2day car ride for over 200$! I decided to enjoy my day and hope for a miracle. I explored lhasa and found the potala palace, it is technically the monastery of the dalai lama even though he is not allowed to step foot in tibet. To enter the palace you needed a ticket and they were currently sold out! I then spotted Tamar, an Israeli girl that i had met the previous night because she was looking for a lift to kathmandu. She was waiting for a friend infront of the palace. When her friend arrived, for some mystical reason, the guard let us in! It was quite interesting; there were lots of pilgrims, young and old climbing the stairs to the potala carrying yak butter!! The yak butter is actually used for candles because of its long lasting capacities. Once at the entrance we had a magnificent view of Lhasa!
Afterwards we went our separate ways and i just walked through the streets. It is fascinating how religious the majority of the people are. The older woman are walking with prayer wheels, people are facing the potala and praying at anytime of the day. They just drop to their knees and countiuously lie down and go back on their knees. They could repeat this action for and indefinite period of time!!   

At 18h00 i once again see Tamar waving hysterically. She informs me she found the sweetest deal to kathamandu but we have to be 4people and call the driver before 19h00.  We run like mad woman around the city to find Dion, the New Zealand guy. Of course we do not find him but we do bump into the driver. He immediately asks for a deposit and hands us his passport as insurance. We decide to pay even though we had no idea if we would be the right amount of people!! Finally at 20h00 we see Dion who agrees to come with us!! We had a few hours to find 1 more person! We go to the travel agent incase he might know someone who needs a lift and he did!! We call the guy, Robert and tell him to be at our hotel at 5h00am! Next morning, we are all in the jeep, the driver, 2 Tibetans in the front, 3 of us on the back seat and Dion in the trunk!! It was quite a ride. I am extremely glad of going overland you get to see the real tibet. The vegetation and mountains are spectacular. In the middle of no where there could be a temple surrounded by a village. There are also lots of ruins on the way to nepal, the temples that were destroyed by the Chinese. The last section of the road is actually still in construction. At one section they are building a tunnel going through a waterfall. Well, the tunnel is half finished. For some reason the driver decided to stop right in the center of the tunnel. The back of the car was getting completely wet by the fall. Suddenly we hear Dion complaining that water is  entering the car!! We quickly keep going through the unfinished road down to the valley.

The next day we crossed the border and hopped into an extremely old Toyota!! I am very surprised we made it all the way! 10 minutes into the drive the car falls into a ditch, only the front wheel!! We all get out of the car and start lifting!! Youpi after 15min we are back on the road! A couple of hours later we are faced with a new problem, petrol!! The lack of gasoline is an important issue! We are stopping at every gas station and they are all out! We encounter cars, buses that are stopped on the side of the road cause they have no more fuel!! The driver was now yelling to every house we were crossing, "petrol". One person comes out of the house with a bottle of water filled with gasoline!! Thank god!! Back on the road. We arrived at Kathmandu at 17h00.

Now i had to find Nuvjeet my friend from high school in Kathmandu. We had planned to trek Everest together!! NO SIGHN OF HER!! I was getting worried of not seeing her. Tamar and i wanted to definitely leave the 30th for our Trek! Since i really want to do Everest but the anapurna circuit is apparently the most beautiful trek, we decided we would tackle both!! 50 days of trekking!!! WE are definitely crazy!! on the 28th, i meet Nuvjeet who is completely into doing both treks!! Another crazy girl to join our group!  The 29th we go shopping for equipment and food!! We get back home all exited to leave the next morning for the trek! We find out there is a transportation strike!!! Shit what do we do!!! WE shall see!!!

Hello everyone,

After a week of touring china in the rain, i am now at 3500m above sea level in the sun but at 10C.

I parted with my mom on the 21st of october, and headed to Chengdu. Back to my regular habits, i had a four hour delay at the airport waiting for my flight! The difference with the american airlines is that during our wait the chinese fed us a hot meal in the waiting room accompanied with hot tea and drinks!! What a change from back home!! Once i finally got to chengdu, i headed by bus to a very adorable guesthouse, a nest of people from all over the world!! I found a phone and called david a chinese travel agent. He came to meet me with my travel permit to tibet and my plane ticket for the next mornning!! Wow great service. Everything was falling into place!!
Next mornning i was in tibet with Popo my driver who picked me up from the airport. On the way to Lhasa, we stopped in his village and he showed my his tibetan house!! I entered the kitchen, there were about 15 people sitting around a small rectangular table. there was pork, Yak meat, shrimps and grilled penuts on the table. They insisted i eat with them. At the beginning i was quite frighten of getting sick. They were cooking pretty much everywhere, boiling their yak butter tea on the floor. It was interesting, i stopped thinking of all the bacterias that could possibly exist and digged in. It was really quite good especially the shrimps!! The tea is definitly not my favorite but it was ok. His familly found it very interesting that i had such clean hands. They were comparing them to children hands!! That is when i reallized that their nails were completely filled with dirth!! Oh well. The differences we are faced with!! After a good meal, we were back on the road to lhasa!

Once there i found a guest house, dropped my bag and went touring the city. It was cool to see how integrated the monks are in society. They mostly all have cell phones and they talk with pretty much everyone!! The street are filled with handcraft shops, hight tech trekking clothes. NorthFace soft shells for under 30$. They are not real but they do the trick! At 18h30 i went to the travel agency and met a guy from NewZealand who wants to head directly to the nepalese border. Just like me!! Together we will probably have a better chance in finding a cheaper way to Nepal for wednesday!!

At 21h00, i headed to bed in my cosy unheated room!! It was close to 5deg. I got quickly changed and got under a ton of covers waiting to warm up!! 5 minutes later i was sound asleep!!