Sunday, October 3, 2010

Made it to Nepal

After an exhausting 20+ hours of travel, I finally made it to Nepal! It is now Monday morning, approx 11:45 am local time and I am having a great time. I arrived at the Kathmandu airport yesterday at around noon.

The airport here is like nothing I have ever seen - it doesn't even compare to the airport in Bangalore, India. Very third world - a big complex that now mostly consists of empty, deteriorating buildings.

Once I got through the line to get my visa, through customs, and grabbed my baggage, I headed outside to find the people who were picking me up. They were supposed to be holding a sign with my name on it, and just as I was getting a bit worried because I didn't see my name on any of the signs, a man approaches me and says "are you Bryan?". He found me using my picture from skype. We made our way to the car which is an old land rover, and met another guy who was the driver. There was a car behind us that was parking us in, so in true Nepali style, the 2 guys with me reached in, shifted it into neutral, and pushed it out of the way!

I came into the office for a quick tour, and then went to the hotel to relax. I am staying in 2 different hotels during the trip because it's tourist season here and everything was booked up. The first hotel I'm staying in is right in the heart of the city, and after a few days I will be moving to a hotel closer to work.

So far I am really enjoying it here, much more so than India. Everything is more relaxed here, there is lots to see and do, and the people at work are great and can't wait to show me around.

We are heading to lunch soon, so I will post again later this afternoon.

No comments:

Post a Comment