WOW! Well, going on from the last time I wrote the baseball game was awesome! They have cheerleaders for their baseball teams and everyone in the stands sing the songs as they move their noisemakers in the same way, Koreans are crazy!!!
Moving on.... NEPAL!!!!
Wow, what a great place, we start off at the airport which is kinda like a trailer with some extensions, there is a immigration line, and a bag pick up line and well thats pretty much it! We had booked our place to stay for the night when we were in Seoul, so they came to pick us up from the airport. Which was nice, cause there are lineups of taxis and basically just people with cars that want to take you to their hostel... "come with me... nice place...cheap, cheap!!"
We got to put our bags down in our room and take a look around the busy city of Kathmandu. Horns honking, garbage stinking the streets, and people trying to sell....well pretty much everything. It's very quite exhausting, and I should add that I am glad I'm not a smoker, cause the pollution from the purple gas they use well its going to pollute our lungs enough I'm sure!
We had booked a night at the Last Resort (http://www.thelastresort.com.np/) It is a place 3.5 hours north of Kathmandu, on a twisty turny road, with land slides and straight down cliffs...not the safest bus ride I have been on, gripping the seat with what I have for nails!!! (like that was going to save my life haha) But we get to the resort, and we have to cross this 160m high bridge over a flowing river, which we both agreed we were going to swing off of later that day. you can check it out on that web address, we are getting the video of us doing it, its a 100m/6 second free fall before the rope archs you into a swing going 150 km/hour, awesome! But i will never do it again!! It was nice after though, the mountains and waterfalls were beautiful and quite relaxing, with crazy energy!!
When we got back to Kathmandu, the next day we decided to go to the monkey temple, called: Swayambhunath. They warn you to hold onto your cameras, hide your sunglasses, and keep everything close to you because the monkeys will take it from you. So we play it safe and get everything ready to climb the 365 steps to the stupa. As we climb the monkeys play around us we take pictures and laugh at the funny things they do. Well, little did I know that they were staring down the bottle of water I had in the pocket of my backpack. Mark noticed and told me to watch out but it was too late. The monkey jumped onto my back and tried to grab the water bottle out of my pack, it scared the crap out of me!! I swung around screaming (its a good chance you can get rabies from them so it is scary) and the monkey flew off, but not two seconds later jumped back on and i took the water bottle and threw it at them, they went chasing it, and opened it and tipped it over and started drinking it!! That was scary but I guess a good store after the fact.
So it hasn't even been 2 weeks and we have eaten live octopus, jumped into a 160m canyon off a bridge, and I got attacked by a money who ended up by just being thirsty.... This is an awesome trip!!
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