Starting to Settle in

Day 3
There are a lot of people moving through the hostel. Yesterday I had food with a guy who just now, left to go up Mt Everest. We hung out yesterday and he told me that he had been to Hongkong for two months. It sounds like an amazing place and it got me started thinking about where I want to go from here.
I got a response from my friend in Thailand, and if I want to meet him and be in Japan in time for the cherry blossom festivals, I'm on a tight schedule. I think I'm going to stick with the plan and go to Thailand next but before that I'm going to get some coffee at a place called "Kar.ma". It is a place where you can get the best Nepali high altitude coffee ever, and you just pay what you want. There is no price, if you have 50 NPR, you give them that, if you have more and feel like it, you can give them more. A girl from Australia took me there, her name is Lina and she helps the people in our dorm a lot. She feels like a new-age yoga/meditation type of girl, which is a lot of fun. After the coffee we went shopping for some "Nepal-style Yoga clothes" and after hearing the same phrases from 10

different merchants, I got two pair of pants for about 1000 NPR.

Its time for some Lunch at the local cafe, I'm gonna get some Nepali curry with cheese and coconut flakes. The curry they have here is really amazing and I'm happy to eat vegetarian while I'm here, not only because the street is full of little butcher shops with chunks of rotting meat laying out in the sun, but because it seems to be what they do best.

I was just out in Thamel to get some supplies for my journey forward. A huge green sweatshirt was accidentally purchased by a lovely lady who called me her "beautiful prince". We agreed upon a price that in my opinion was fair, and I walked back to the Hostel. I came across a shop with Tibetan singing bowls obviously they where overpriced, because their asking price was about twenty times the price of the metal used to make them, but I'm gonna try and see if I can't find one and bring home with me, at a more appropriate price of course.

Just as i was about to go and get dinner, three travel mates from Singapore showed up. They where called Shao-Kai, Kandice and Sebastian. We went out in the city to grab dinner together and hung out for the rest of the evening. They where a really fun group of people, and in the evening we drank rum and played an asian card game called "Dai di".