Kathmandu for the Koolest Kid (Ella… Duh)

Hi! I previously wrote a lot of blogs but then accidentally deleted them, so they’re going to be shorter and less detailed. Sorry! Also, sorry I forgot to mention how long we’d be gone! Also, I’m going to edit this over the next couple of days, so check back for more photos:

When we got to Kathmandu, we met our guide, Ganesh. We arrived at our hotel and ate a local soup called Thukpa which was very good. However, Asher was so tired that he fell asleep on the floor! We did homework for a little while, but we mostly slept. We walked around the town a bit and then ate at a restaurant called the New Orleans Cafe. There, I tried momos, a really delicious steamed dumpling stuffed with chicken or vegetables (or cheese or potatoes or just about anything else)! We got settled in the hotel and went to sleep. The next morning we ate breakfast with Ganesh at a restaurant with a tree growing of the middle of it, and I saw a man casually walking down the street holding two chickens upside down by the feet! After breakfast, we went to a temple, or stupa, and climbed massive amounts of stairs to get to the top. However, it was worth it and we got to see some amazing views and storms of monkeys.

I also got to eat a coconut! There are a lot of dogs there and around Kathmandu, but they all looked healthy and happy. Later, Troy and I bought some cashmere scarves and a couple other things that we needed and then went to get out hair dyed with henna. Henna is a natural dye that is used on both hair and skin. It is extremely healthy for hair. It turns either orange or red depending on the color of the original hair, but if it is done wrong it turns green. Troy went first and, sorry Troy, but it turned out horrible! He looked like Bozo the clown or as if he and Trixie had changed hair colors! It was so bad that the next day he shaved it off! My hair was dark enough that indoors one wouldn’t even be able to tell I had henna, but outside it catches the light and takes on this really nice reddish tint in the sun.

It started to drizzle lightly, so Aba, Troy, Ganesh, Asher and I ate at the New Orleans Cafe again and I ordered momos! Then, we worked at the hotel and went to bed. The following day was uneventful because we spent it packing and organizing, so I won’t bore you with it. The next day we got in a jeep and started to drive to our starting place on the Annapurna. On the way, we stopped and bought off-brand Kinder Eggs called King Eggs! We opened them, and they looked so disgusting that we didn’t even taste them!

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We drove for a few hours and stopped for a snack, but then we ate at a restaurant with a beautiful view of a lake. There, we saw two puppies, a boy and a girl. They were very small and fluffy. The girl was pure white and had a lot of character. She was very insistent to be petted, and she was a little bit bossy with her brother, though she was also very sweet. Her brother was white with a few orange spots and very shy. However, once I got to know him he was angelic and sweet like his sister. They reminded me of myself and Asher!

We kept driving until lunch, where we had to switch jeeps in order to drive partway up the mountain until we were forced to stop by a construction project. A team of construction workers was installing a pipe under the road to carry water, but we were only stuck for about twenty minutes. While we were waiting, two dogs had mated and gotten stuck… Let’s just say that it didn’t look even remotely comfortable. It only took us fifteen minutes to finish our drive, so we played UNO, ate dinner, and fell asleep.

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