The plane arrives on time at the international airport in Kathmandu. Usual practice to go through the usual fee to be paid, usually waiting at the baggage claim area, usually sticky heat.
are approximately 9:00 am when we leave the airport and are waiting for Khamal, which gives us' and to welcome us to the van. We leave the parking lot and head towards Thamel, where you will find our hotel and where, usually, one immersed in a chaotic traffic, noise and suffocating. You can imagine my surprise when we cross paths with no cars, only used by people on foot or by bike. A lot of people who seem to have become the mistress of the road and that barely deviates watching you hurt the passing of our half and a few others authorized to travel.
Throughout Nepal, and from May 1 and 'a general strike was launched. The Maoists do not seem to be happy with the president who seems not adhered to the terms and timing for the creation of the first constitution of Nepal, so 'decided to ask for the dismissal and did so through the voice of thousands of people today and presumably in the past days sang in the streets chorus of protest. And do not mess with the Maoists ... I do not think you can afford to express an opinion at variance ... . This evening I spoke with a couple of tourists who stay in our same hotel, and yesterday they found a restaurant open on the second floor of a building to go there to dine. Mezz 'hours after placing an order entered by the Maoists who have ordered the operators to close, but seeing that customers did not come out promptly, they decided to shoot six shots into the air, dropping to the ground a shower of glass that my Friends have also stepped quickly to get out fast.
That 's the situation now: no one knows when the strike will end,' all the stores of any kind except the pharmacies are closed. Today allowed merchants to open only two hours, six to eight in the evening, and not sgarra, at eight minutes of the stores were pulling all down 'the damper. We thus' we could do the last task (though not all) that we had to do before leaving for the trek in the Mustang. I then hope to make more on my return to Kathmandu before leaving for the time Lukhla Island Peak and Ama Dablam.
Today, however, and 'was an interesting experience to walk the streets of the city' which are usually invaded by motorized vehicles of any kind to trumpet all the time and with their exhaust pipes make the air breathable. now instead of feeling the horn to the birds, and the roads have become in soccer and cricket. All where there were no demonstrations, there were children playing and breathing air that at least these days and 'become breathable.
Our plan tomorrow afternoon flight to Pokari to spend the night with (hopefully) romantic dinner by the lake, and then the next day early morning flight Pokari-Jhomson, from where the trek to this popular Mustang that will take us' in one of the most 'beautiful in the world.
greetings Cala
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