when you start the decnt in to kathmandu intl airport. the feeling that goes through your gut and mind is 'what the hell have I hotten myself into". even before you touch down on the runway, the views from the airplane window, make you feel as if you are in sort of altenate universe. The himalayas poke up through the clouds, and make the cloud tops seem solid. The himalayas look like hug mountains from ABOVE cloud level, and are still amazingly massive from ground level.
The whole experience was wildly disorientating. But! to top it all off. There were little villages speckled all over the green mountain tops. All of this clearly visible (yet unbeleivable) right outside my plane window.
As i got closer to the ground, i started to see dusty dusty villages, separated by more dusty small roads and alley ways. Being the useless westerner that I am, I dont know exactly what kinds of housing I was expecting to see. But the 3-6 story brick villages that infested the whole Kathmandu valley shocked me proper. I couldn't beleive what I was seeing, and only a double pane glass separated me from a sights that even a national geopgrphic write up on Nepal couln't have prepared me for.
The plane touched down and i did a sient small clap to thank the pilots for getting me all the way from edmonton to Kathmandu, and then it hit me. shiv is probably only 100 meters away from my seat in this very plane. Then my heart started beating really fast. I wonder If he is here. i wonder if my bags are in nepal. I hope I have enough clean underwear to last me till my bags show up. What if I get scammed at customs.... Al off these crazy thoughts filled my mind untill i got to the baggage pick up area, and my bags we'rent there
i hate the 3rd world!!! there are few thing more frustrating than not being able to find your bags, not being able to communicate that you cnt find your bags.And then seeing peoples half torn apart luggae come barreling off the converyer belt. Parcels only held together with rope and tape, or luggage duck taped shut with hand written deliviery instructio taped on to the outside, complete with cell phone and contact information.
And i thought, some one probably just stole my suitcase, and is selling all the content some where in a market. I bet these suitcases made it to nepal, because you can atually see the inside contents, from the outside.
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U r 2 funny Jan. I hope that you did end up getting your luggage!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the updates CAN NOT WAIT to see the photo daries! Stay strong, iron belly, and give shiv a big hug from us, keep up the great work u 2.
xoxo
cyn