Le Petit Prince :P

J'ai achete Le Petit Prince en anglais aussi :P
I bought The Little Prince in english as well :P
Dokupilem Malego Ksiecia po angielsku :P

I bought new camera!/Kupilem nowy aparat!

I bought new camera... :D

I'm again happy in my own little photographic world :D
And because of my new camera, I can now watch previous pictures made by my 2nd camera with destroyed screen :) and I see, that if I even take a photo without really see what I take... it is not so bad, as I expected... :P

Kupilem sobie w koncu nowy aparat... :D
Znowu jestem w swoim zywiole i moge pukac fotki! :P
Dzieki niemu tez moglem obaczyc te, ktore zrobilem za pomoca drugiego, ktory mam, ale z rozwalonym ekranem :)
i nie powiem :P... niezle strzelam fotki w ciemno (nie widzac co robie :D), wyszly nie tak zle, jak myslalem :D

J'ai achete Le Petit Prince en version oryginal... en francais :)
I bought The Little Prince in original version... in french :)
Kupilem sobie malego ksiecia w oryginale... po francusku :)

aaaa here is that button to upload photos to my blog!!!
aaaa tu jest ten guzik do uploadowania fotek na moj blog!!!

Kamil

Bloody communists!/Cholerni komunisci!

Have I said how I hate communists??? First they have attacked Tibet! and now they make problems with travelling there!!! With all their procedures I will probably have to spend 500$ just to get from Kathmandu to Lhasa (600km)!!! Now I try to negotiate in Chinese embassy, but I'm not sure if I will be able to get there cheaper! :) Somebody told me once: Communist that's not a human being... There has to be some truth in it...
So I started to think about different ways to the north... :D

Czy wspominalem juz jak ja nie cierpie komunistow??? Najpierw zaatakowali Tybet! a teraz robia problemy z podrozowaniem tam!!! Z tymi ich wszystkimi procedurami najprawdopodobniej bede musial wydac 500$ tylko na przejazd z Kathmandu do Lhasy (600km)!!! Probuje z nimi negocjowac w chinskiej ambasadzie, ale nie wiem czy beda jakies efekty! :) Ktos mi kiedys powiedzial: Komunista to nie czlowiek... Cos w tym musi byc... :P
Rozwazam inne opcje pozdrozy na polnoc... :D

Letter/List: 13; Day/Dzien: 154; KM: 25700; NP-Kathmandu - Fairy for adults/Basn dla doroslych

hi!!!/Witajcie!

hehe... at the moment i'm completely wet, and completely... RED!!! that's not because of large quantity of eaten red fruites, but because today starts "Holy Festival" here... and today everybody puts hundreds of litres of water on each other... it is similar to polish "Smigus Dyngus" during Easter Monday... but not exacty the same... cause not just only water is used! but paints as well...
so on my way to cybercafe I got a lot of paint on me (hoping that it is possible to wash it off my clothes! :P)... now i'm mainly red but also yelow-purple-green! and polish version finishes on the midday... now is few hours later, but i still hear a lot of screaming people (especially wet girls :P)

Hehe... W tym momencie jestem caly przemoczony i caly... CZERWONY!!! i nie dlatego, ze sie nawsuwalem sie jakichs czerwonych owocow, ale dlatego, ze dzisiaj zaczyna sie: "Holy Festival". i dzisiaj wszyscy oblewaja sie setkami litrow wody... Przypomina to polski "Smigus Dyngus" podczas Wielkiego Poniedzialku... ale czyms sie roznia... bo tu nie tylko woda jest w uzyciu! farby tez!!!
wiec po drodze do kafei dostalo mi sie kilka garcsci farb na glowe(mam nadzieje, ze to sie spiera :P) teraz jestem glownie czerwony, ale tez troche zolto-fioletowo-zielony! no i polska wersja konczy sie w poludnie, a teraz jest juz grubo po a dalej slysze krzyczace "niewiasty"...

When I was leaving Varanasi... I met Nepali guy there, so I asked how to get to Nepal by the most convenient way... I said that I wanna take train to the border and next bus to Kathamandu... he said that bus is better than train, cause by train i would go 3 days to Kathmandu (700km)... of course I couldn't believe him (3 days seemed to be incredible period)... At that time I didn't know that speedness records will be broken one after one... next days proved that 3 days period is unsufficiant!!! In Varanasi it started to rain... I got to the station before Midday, but just one train in Khajuraho direction has just left. I heard a lot good things about Nepal in last few days, so I deided to go straight to Nepal... train to Gorakhpur supposed to be in 1 hour time... after 1 hour, when different train has come
on that platform, I went back to the enquiry... i had to wait another 15 mins in the queue... and
i received information, that train will be on another platform in 1 hour time... after that period
obviously there was no train... and after another 10 mins standing in a queue i got information that
train may be at 4... finally it arrived at 5 pm... I supposed to be in gorakhpur at 5...
i reached gorakhpur at 10:30... and i wanted to find enquiry, but i found another guy who had another office there... i asked him about the train to Raxaul (border), he told me to sit and wait a bit... he was talking by his mobile, net landline, mobile again... when he had breaks between calls, i asked again about
the train... he said, that i should relax, sit and wait, he is gonna explain me everything, but he has to make one more call...
after another 15 mins waiting until he finishes... i left his office and found closed enguiry... there was
no any shield in english... i can read devanagari, but i didn't know which train was going through Raxaul...
one guy showed me few... and one of those should start from gorakhpur at 10:30 (it was 10:50)
i started to run to a platform... and i saw departing train... i wanted to kill the guy who was speaking by phone before...!!! at his office I lost important minutes... next train supposed to be in the morning... at 10:30 am...
it has come at 13:00 and i reached raxaul at 6pm!!! border was already closed! so i had to wait another day!
next day i passed the border in the morning... and just after that i realized that there are no buses
in this area because of strike!!! the nearest bus to kathmandu could be reached from the town 25km away...
so I wanted to hitchhike there... after one hour i realized that in Southern Nepal, there are no cars at all!!! (except big towns) just rikshaws (even not auto-rickshaws), bicycles, motorbikes, and horses!!! :P so how to get to that bus??? I had to take normal rickshaw there... and guy was pedalling
with me and my bag 25km!!!

Jak wyjezdzalem z Waranasi spotkalem jednego Nepalczyka i zapytalem jak najprosciej dostac sie do Nepalu... powiedzialem, ze bede jechal pociagami, a w Nepalu autobusem... powiedzial, ze autobus bedzie lepszy niz pociag, bo pociagami bede sie wlokl 3 dni do Kathmandu (700km) - no oczywiscie uznalem, ze cos sciemnia, bo myslalem, ze to niemozliwe jechac 700 km w 3 dni!!! ale wtedy nie wiedzialem, ze rekordy predkosci beda od teraz bite jeden po drugim... jak sie okazalo, w 3 dni nie udalo mi sie dojechac do Kathmandu!!!

W Waranasi zaczelo padac... na stacji bylem juz przed poludniem, ale jedyny pociag w kierunku kadzuraho juz odjechal... ostatnio ostalem napakowany dobrymi informacjami o Nepalu, wiec postanowilem jechac tam od razu... pociag do Gorakpuru mial byc za godzine... oczywiscie na prawidlowym peronie o prawidlowej godzinie przyjechal nieprawidlowy pociag... na szczescie nie wsiadlem... :Dwrocilem do informacji po wyjasnienia... odczekalem "swoje" w kolejce i sie dowiedzialem, ze pociag bedzie za godzine (za przyslowiowa godzine oczywiscie)... oczywiscie w podanym czasie zadnego pociagu nie bylo... znowu kolejka... znowu pytanie... znowu ma byc za godzine... tym razem o 4... przyjechal o 5... o te godzinie to ja mialem byc juz w Gorakpurze... na miejsce dotarlem o 10:30...
chcialem znalezc informacje... ale wczesniej doterlem do jakiegos biura, gdzie zapytalem o moj pociag... gosc powiedzil zebym sobie usiadl, i poczekal, az on gdzies zadzowni... i tak sobie dzwonil i dzownil prze komorke, stacjonarny, komorke... kiedy pytalem o pociag... prosil bym sie uspokoil i poczekal... w koncu wyszedlem... znalazlem informacje ale byla zamknieta... nie bylo zadnej tablicy po angielsku... no niby umiem czytac dewanagari, ale to nie jest ostatnia stacja, wiec na tablicach jej nie bylo... ktos mi pokazal pociagi jadace do Raxaul... okazalo sie, ze jeden mial byc o 10:30... byla 10:50... popbieglem na peron... i tylko widzialem odjedzajacy pociag... :D goscia od telefonu ciezko mi bylo nie ubijac... bo to przez niego strailem te wazne minuty... nastepny mial byc o 10:30 rano... przyjechal o 13:00 i dojechalem do Raxaul o 18:00... wlasnie zamkneli granice... :D musialem poczekac kolejny dzien... i kiedy juz bylem w Nepalu, dowiedialem sie, ze nie autobusow do Katmandu, bo jest Strajk od kilku dni!!! Najblizsze autobusy odjezdzaja z miasteczka 25 km na polnoc... postanowilem pojechac stopem... jak sie okazalo... nie tylko autobusow tam nie ma... poza kathmandu i pokhara tu nie ma nawet samochodow!!! Tylko riksze (nawet nie auto-riksze) motory, rowery i konie!!! wiec jak sie dostac stad do autobusu??? musialem pojechac riksza... i koles tak pedalowal majac mnie i moj plecak przez 25km!!!

after that i found the bus to kathmandu... it was 12 o clock... i paid for ticket... and i knew that it is gonna start when get full...
it got full at 4pm!!! i've heard that in nepal you can live out magic things... and that's whole true! for example during the way to kathmandu my camera disappeared!!! isn't that magic??? but not camera was important... the pictures!!!
i lost all since Christmas... almost all goan, whole from southern and eastern india...
another thing which i could experienced first time in my life... that was the situation, when close to midnight... our driver dissapeared for 2,5 hours!!! :P he was sleeping in open air "motel" close to the way! finally i reached kathmandu at 5 am!!! i spent 17 hours in bus... (170km!!!) probably my rikshaw guy was going faster!!!

jak juz znalazlem autobus do Kathmandu... (byla 12:00)... zaplacilem za bilet... i czekam.. bo wiem, e autobus nie ruszy, az sie nie zapelni... zapelnil sie o 16... slyszalem, ze w Nepalu dzieja sie magiczne rzeczy, czego moglem doswiadczyc na wlasnej skorze... w autobusie zniknal moj aparat, ale to nie to czego mi szkoda najbardziej... razem aparatem karta, a na niej z 1000 zdjec poczawszy od swiat do teraz... czyli nie ma juz zdjec z goa, z poludniowych i wschodnich indii (poprzednie bezpiecznie polecialy do UK)... ale to nie koniec... okolo polnocy rowniez kierowca gdzies zniknal... jak sie okazalo poszedl spac do "motelu" na swiezym powietrzu... w koncu dojechalismy do katmandu o 5 rano... w autobusie spedzilem 17godzin (170km)... chyba ta rioksza dojechalbym do katmandu szybciej!!! :P

Kathmandu that's amazing town... very different than other asian towns which i have seen... streets of old town looks really similar to european towns such as paris or berlin on the pictures
from 17th century!!! and here is beatiful durbar square... which contains 50 different hindu
and buddhist temples! when i got there first time, i couldn't believe, that something like that
exists on the world... on the 2nd day i got to one large buddhist stupa outside of town...
which is an amazing place on the hill, where you can watch whole panorame of kathmandu! after that i got to the city centre... and i saw Kumari... just one living goddess on the whole world!!! She is just a little girl, chosen of the family which are descendants of Siddharta Gautama (Buddha) family... and she is goddess until the first drop of blood (first cut or menstruation)...
after that she stops to be a goddess and she receives lifetime pension and next Kumari is chosen
(kumari in hindi and nepali means virgin)

Katmandu to niezwykle miasto... rozni sie od inncy azjatyckich miast i t bardzo... wlasciwie to wyglada tak jak europejskie miasta... tyle ze 400 lat temu... widac tez wplywy hinduskie i chinskie... sa tu nawet pagody...
jest tu takie miejsce jak durbar square... gdzie jest 50 swiatyn... wszysko razem wyglada jak z bajki... :D
na durbar square mieszka hinduska bogini - kumari - jest zywa i prawdziwa... jest mala dziewczynka, ktora jest boginia az do pierwszej kropli krwi (menstruacji lub skaleczenia), potem wraca do normalnego zycia i dostaje dozywotnia pensje... i nastepna kumari jest wybierama z 4-5 letnich dziewczynek z rodzin bedacych potomkami rodziny buddy - ciekawe jak to jest byc lokalnym bogiem... kumari znaczy w hindi i po nepalsku "dziewica"...
wdrapalem tez sie na pobliskie wzgorze z buddyjska stupa... malo tego, ze sama ona wyglada imponujaco... ale widok jaki sie stamtad rozposciera na miasto jest nie do opisania... do tego Himalaje w tle...

in kathmandu i live in city centre... in the district called thamel... there are a lot of tourists, book shops, travel agencies... kathmandu is 700 000 people town... so like for example Krakow, but seems to be much smaller... cause anywhere i can get easilly by foot... in my hotel... they have told me, that they have solar system to get water hot... :D so i got to the roof and started to look for solar energy collectors... and i realized that solar system in nepal means cisterns of water put onto direct sunlight!!! :D so water is hot just from midday up to sunset :P hehe

w katmandu mieszkam w samym centrum... w dzielnicy zwanej tamel... jest tu sporo turystow, ksiegarn, agencji podrozy... w kathmandu mieszka 700 000 ludzi, czyli tyle co w Krakowie, ale wydaje sie duzo mniejse... wszedzie mozna chodzic na piechote... :D w moim hotelu, powiedzino mi, ze maja grzanie wody energia sloneczna... podeekscytowany tym, wdrapalem sie na dach szukajac kolektorow... znalazlem metalowy baniaq na wode... wystawiony na slonce... i tak woda sie grzala... no chlopaki to maja pomysly... tak wyglada energia ze slonca w wydaniu nepalskim...

2 days ago I met first polish people in Nepal... :D but not just single couple... that was 45 people group!!! they were buddhist pilgrims!!! and they had an big journey to Bhutan, India and Nepal!!! really nice people... they have invited me to their party... and on another day to an excursion to some holy caves and buddhist cloister/monastery... THANK YOU FOR THAT!!!
They gave me 2 beautiful books, one is written by Lama Ole! and this i'm gonna read next, after finishing George Orwell's - "1984"... :P

2 dni temu potkalem pierwszych Polakow w Nepalu... ale nie jakas parke... tylko 45 osob!!! buddyjscy pielgrzymi... zrobili sobie wielka wycieczke do Nepalu, Indii i Nepalu... fantastyczni ludzie... zaprosili mnie do siebie na impreze... a nastepnego dnia na wycieczke po lokalnych swetych jaskiniach i klastorach... DZIEKI!!! BYLO SUPER!!! Do tego podarowali mi 2 madre ksiazki, w tym jedna Lamy Olego! i te przeczytam jako nastepna... zara jak skoncze "1984" Orwella...

oh... Kvetko... Buddisty stretnuti v Kathmandu povedali mi, ze to co Ty jsi mi dala, to je dulezity/vazny straznik! ja jsem toho casnejse ne vedel... Djakuji este raz :P

Last things about Kathmandu, which I can say... that the internet is 4 times cheaper and much faster than in India... it costs 10NPR/h which is 15c/8p per hour...
and kathmandu has almost no addresses!!! street got names just few years ago... and buildings don't have numbers... important places are rocognised by name... but normal people have to pay for post box :D... isn't it funny??? :D
there is no so heavy traffic in the streets, people don't horn all the time... and it seemes to be a bit cleaner... :D

Ostatnie co moge napisac o Katmandu to:
Internet jest 4 razy tanszy tu niz w Indiach! i do tego jest szybszy... kosztuje 10NPR=50gr za godzine!!!
w Kathmandu nie ma prawie adresow!!! ulice dostaly nazwy kilka lat temu, ale budynki dalej nie maja numerow... waniejsze miejsca sie rozpoznaje po nazwie! a normalni ludzie maja skrytki pocztowe :D... jajca, nie...
do tego nie ma tak wzmoonego ruchu na waskich uliczkach, ludie nie trabia aly czas na siebie i wyglada ze jest tu czysciej... :P

my new address if you want to send me anything (will be valid for few weeks)

moj nowy adres... jak chcecie mi os wyslac (bedzie wazny przez kilka tygodni)

Kamil Dudkowski
C.O. Paurushj Rana
GPO P.O. BOX NR 23548
Sundhara
NP-Kathmandu-4
NEPAL
additional information: my phone doesn't work here :D
dodatkowa informacja: moj teleon tu nie dziala :D

Hugs/Usciski/Abrazos :P

Kamil