Finally some 5 star Luxury at the Yak and Yeti in Kathmandu

Our flight back to Kathmandu from Chitwan is scheduled for around 12:30 pm but I think we're getting a drive there around 10:00 am which means more airport waiting.

We wake up around 8:00 am and start packing up to get ready to leave. For some reason the A/C was acting funky all night, powering on for about 30 seconds then powering down for about 3 minutes. This went on for a while until we decided to shut the damn thing off entirely. Not an easy decision in 40 plus Celsius weather but the noise was too much. Needless to say our room was a sweatbox when we woke. Thankfully the A/C was back to working again the am so we cooled off quickly.

After a quick breakfast (including our regular branch of fresh picked lychees) we decide to head out for a final walk about. We take the opportunity to get some last minute photos and we visit a graveyard that we've seen while driving by bit haven't had the chance to stop at.

Of course we also take the time (for the millionth time) to marvel at the amount of wild pot growing at the sides of the roads and in the fields. Crazy!

We get back to the lodge and the security guard at the front gate checks his watch and says something to us about the time. Turns out our driver is waiting for us...the time for leaving has been changed once again and we have to leave to leave now. We pay up the bill (for beers, water and pop) and find out that they don't take credit cards—cash only. Luckily we have just enough rupees to pay. We are hoping that the ATMs are open in Kathmandu when we get there.

The deadline for the constitution was last night and the staff had been watching the news cast well into the night, however they were reluctant to talk about the situation this morning. All we could find out was "no strike" so hopefully all is OK in Kathmandu (we've had no Internet access in Chitwan).

The wait in the airport and the flight back are uneventful. We had hoped for lower temperatures once we arrived in Kathmandu but it didn't feel any different.

Kiran meets us as expected, and whisks us off to the Yak and Yet hotel (our only 5 start accommodation during this whole trip). Along the way he mentions that he has been very busy at the airport in the last few days. The final trekkers and climbers from mount Everest are now arriving back in Kathmandu however they have been held up in Lukla over the last 3 days. The weather has been preventing flights in or out of Lukla so the travellers are starting to build up in Lukla. Thankfully we got when we did with no delays.

We arrive at Yak and Yeti and are thrilled with the luxury—huge, king size bed, huge room, A/C, lots of pillows, great restaurant, elevators, a POOL!!!, TV and mini bar. We quickly unpack, get lunch then hit the pool. This is the life ( and we agree that next vacation will be 5 star all the way :-)

At dinner, we notice "diet coke" on the menu and miraculously they have diet Pepsi in stalk. A 250 ml can costs 250 rupees, that's around $3 Canadian. We discuss the crazy high price then decide to splurge and order 3 cans to bring to our room. Interestingly some of the items in the mini bar are cheaper than purchasing them directly from the restaurant...yeah mini bar!