Ongchhu left the hotel early. He was on the morning bus to Kathmandu and we were flying out later. We toodled around town that morning, found a good cup of coffee and some pastries, and walked out to a big park to take in the view of Fishtail Peak and Annapurna in the distance.
We also got our lodging sorted out for our return to Kathmandu. Since we didn’t know when exactly we’d be returning, we didn’t have reservations, and an email from the Hotel Nepalaya made it sound like they didn’t have room for us the day we’d get back so it was on to Expedia to see what we could find. I was pretty set on the Hyatt after seeing it on the map the day we arrived at the start of our trip, but Becky had a good point that it wasn’t particularly close to downtown, so we compromised and opted for the Yak & Yeti, which was still walking distance to the Thamel district, but it was supposedly Kathmandu’s oldest five-star hotel and should certainly be much cushier than the Nepalaya.
The flight to Kathmandu was ridiculously fast compared to the seven hour rollercoaster we would’ve otherwise endured to get back via the roads. While at the domestic airport in Kathmandu, Becky got us two seats on the Everest flight-seeing trip on Saturday. The afternoon rapidly burned away with a trip to the Nepalaya to retrieve our duffle of clean clothes we’d left behind, getting lunch, and vegetating in front of the tv in our posh digs at the Yak & Yeti.
That night Ongchhu met us as the hotel and we all walked over to Thamel to have a “farewell” dinner with Furwa. We found out along the way that we’d be joined by four other trekkers who were embarking on a Kanchenjunga trek the next morning with Furwa and Ongchhu. We all met at a very nice Thai restaurant and had a really fun evening getting to know the two French, one German and one Ecuadorian trekker. One of the French guys had been trekking in Nepal NINE times! We took great delight in the fact that despite being at a Thai restaurant the French guy ordered chicken Cordon Bleu and the two Nepalis ordered dal bhat.
...the next day
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