Transit to Nepal- January 1, 2014

We arrived in Hong Kong at 6 AM after a 16 hour flight.  It was actually awesome because I slept almost a full 8 hours (thank you Ambien) and watched World War Z (not a good movie while on a flight but was very nice to admire Brad Pitt though Mark is hotter) and eat some ok flight food.  We freshened up, checked our bags in to the left luggage area, pulled out some cash and went to explore Hong Kong.  I had already been here so had some bearings but Anna hadn't. We went to the main downtown and walked towards the big escalator which is just crazy and funny.  But it was going down and we wanted to go up so we continued to do that, stopped for breakfast and made it to the top in enough time to ride it down.  We then made our way to the Star Ferry to go over towards Kowloon.  From Kowloon, you have an impressive view of the massive downtown buildings on the downtown side, stroll along the Avenue of the Stars (all Chinese actors… like ours in Hollywood) and enjoy the sunny day.  

The Hong Kong skyline

                         

We hiked up a few spots and got some Chinese lunch (which ended up being pricey and not very good… meat with bones, yuck).  Next we found the parade that was of a bunch of buddhas and dragon performers. 

A happy kid in the Buddha parade

                         

 It was fun to watch them get ready but unfortunately, it started about the time we had to start getting back and I was starting to get pretty tired.  So we walked back to the train stop to return us to the airport, picked up our bags and waited til our flight boarded.  I slept pretty well and didn't really budge when we stopped in Dhaka Bangladesh.  I really would have liked to get off, just to see what an airport in Bangladesh is like, but the security was very strict and we could not even get off and they made sure every bag left on the plane was accounted for.  So I just slept through that.  We arrived late to Kathmandu and got a taxi to our Florid Hotel.  Of course the taxi guy had no idea where we was going even though he said he did so it took a while to find it but then we saw some members of our group waiting for us so we knew we had found the right place.  Then it was sleepy time!