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I am now in Kathmandu. Today is my last day of aimless roaming in Kathmandu. I find aimless roaming quite interesting. It was rather enjoyable walking through the older part of the city which is now a market bustling with people. The design of the place reminds me somewhat of fantasy game books - one street sells hardware, another lane sells pottery, another alley sells electrical goods and so forth. The lanes are all quite specialised. If you want to find spices in a lane that sells electrical goods, then too bad - it is in the other street. I would have found it confusing if I wanted to buy something because the lanes are like a maze. Also there is a sense of serendipity - occasionally, you find something spectacular out of the blue. Today I found a stupa that was actually very nice in one of the streets.

Tomorrow my friends will be coming from Singapore and pretty soon after we will be starting our trek. We will have one evening to stock up on whatever we are lacking and then we will head out on Saturday. We will be doing part of the Annapurna Circuit. I say part because we do not have enough days to complete the whole trek and have to shorten some part of it by taking a flight from Jomsom to Pokhara. I think that is generally the plan as I left it all for the trekking companies and the guide. I will just follow along leisurely. Hopefully, none of us will be hit with any serious altitude sickness. Since the trek is starting, I think there will be very limited internet connection and so I might not be posting anything for a while.