Demi Tour of the World

First, because i forgot on the last post, i’d like to thanks the clinic travel staff. Everybody ’s been really nice and effective. So if you depart for far away trip from Amiens go to them and you’ll have a warm welcome.

Now back to the trip. The plane Doha-Kathmandu was shared between nepalis and trekkers. I was between. My neighbour on the right was dutch and 15 years of nepalis trek experience, a knowledge of the country on his fingertips. My neighbour on the left was Nepali and named Ohm who’s coming back from Bahrain whit two of his friends.

In The Airport, the first thing to do is to queue, a long enough queue apparently because the customers didn’t read my form and gave me immediately a two month visa. Next step the luggage. A mess of luggage. Then the exit. Nepali’s Taxi come here as mamas’ in the market looking for fat chicken. Welcome to Nepal !) So happy i feeled !

As planned, Joanna, the organisation’s president, is waiting for me right at the entrance of  the Main Place of the Stupa. So here what you see when arriving :

the second largest stupa in the world. Buddha Nath where Joanna, and i now, live is this neighbourhood, the place’s named Buddhanath on the edge of Kathmandu. Mainly tibetan are living here but Indian, malaisian and tourists can be crossed. In any case if the place is full of people it feels quite as there are no cars like on the main road.

The other good surprise is the house in which Joanna rents the first floor :

Yeah, It is the house in the middle. In the flat we met Pema, Student in a surrounding school helped by the organisation, who’s now working for his old school.

Joanna just arrived to so we had to do some shopping, she wondered where’s her cat while two others, brothers for sure, have taken position on the kitchen door. dark happened quickly so we wen’t to eat guess where ? … The Regency ! but instead  of a big croque monsieur like in Amiens ! here it is tibetan food. At random i choosed Shya Balay which my host didn’t know. The plate was delicious, a kind of mashed beef pie. We eated on a large wooden table where seated a lama and his fellow. There are in pilgrimage from Dharamsala and eated Thukpa (noodle soup) and Momos. The lama showed me the CDs he bought today three new released album from wellknown tibetan singers.

Joanna, that’s five year she’s implicated with the tibetan refugee in Kathmandu. She’s in contact with three schools and a reading room just off the great stupa’s place. A late guest of the regency arrived on our table and understanding her knowledge of  the town asked her some questions.