Arrived at Dwarika's and basically chilled the rest of the afternoon to shake off some jet lag. The people here are warm and relaxed. Time almost feels like it is standing still - maybe it is the fog of our jetlag!
While Rebecca relaxed, I hit the streets to try and get our two old unlocked Iphones set up with Nepal sim cards. Found the local Ncell distributor - he barely spoke any english, but he understood what I wanted. thankfully, I had two extra passport size photos, which he required - I filled out some forms including father's and grandfather's first names and then had to go to copy shop two doors down and get copies of Visa and Passport made for him. Luckily a woman walked in who spoke some english and gave me the numbers of our two phones by typing in *903* (who would have known?) - we now have two local phones with 350 rupees credit on each one. It costs about 2 rupees a minute to call and talk. The total cost for both sim cards and getting them "charged" with rupees was a whopping $9, including his fee to put the sim cards in. I kept asking him if he was charging me correctly - he assured me he was!!!
We then toured the hotel and enjoyed the ancient artifacts built into the design.
We also enjoyed a 6 course Napalese dinner and promptly passed out very soon thereafter. The food was incredible and we look forward to using the local spices in out cooking when we get home!
We head to The Royal Chitwan National Park this morning. Catch up soon!
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