Nepal Trip 2007: Day 2: (almost) LIVE POST! 13 October 2007 12:00 am
Posted by Tracy in : Kathmandu, nepal, travel, eating, friends , add a commentGreetings from the future! I am writing this at 10:30 AM on Saturday in Kathmandu and today’s post wasn’t scheduled to go out for another 10 or so hours but I’ve shifted it to go up at the earliest possible moment on Saturday Pacific Time so y’all can be almost as confused by the time change as I am. Speaking of time change confusion, just for giggles, here’s what I wrote last week or whenever it was I tried to predict what I’d be doing on this trip (it feels like a lifetime ago):
I really, really do not know how to number these days. I’m still getting over the fact that I lost one to the flight from LA-Bangkok. Also, the time change between Nepal and the West Coast is almost exactly 12 hours, but considering all the madness of the travel schedule, I give myself 50-50 odds of just randomly resetting my internal clock by today because it’s going to be such a relief to have regular ol’ 24-hour days again.
On the schedule for today is a day trip to Patan, in the Kathmandu Valley. Patan is one of the three ancient royal cities of Nepal: the other two are Kathmandu and Bhaktapur.
Turns out we actually went to Patan yesterday, but not before eating a delicious breakfast and learning a whole lot about the traditional arts and crafts of the Kathmandu Valley, which in turn helped us appreciate the sights in Patan, and it was awesome. (Also, I am so tweaked out by the time change that I am waking up at 5 AM here, but I’ll have more on that in a bit. Long story short, the crazy early morning internal clock wakeup has already come in handy once.) (more…)
