2014 was a good year: for various reasons, we had the opportunity to exaggerate, so after Nicaragua in February and Mongolia in the summer, in November we were able to take even a trip to Nepal

22/11/2014

We arrive in Kathmandu, the city is chaotic but fascinating, so we spend the day walking around



23/11/2014

It's the day we have to pick up the bike and start our journey, but the morning starts with a bad surprise: the guy from bikemandu, from which I had booked the bike months before, a Royal Enfield Classic 350, sends me an email saying that the bike I had booked is not available, because of unspecified problems, but he has an alternative, albeit without luggage racks. I'm not discouraged, and I reply that I'm going to his place: we are in Asia, and a solution is usually easy to find, I think.
When we arrive there is no alternative.
The only bike he has is already booked by another customer, and it doesn't seem to be in good conditions.
The guy asks me if I want to see the "alternative" bike and of course the answer is yes: the bike is not there and we need to wait.
Ok no problem.
After two hours two guys arrive, riding a pair of Bullet pissing oil everywhere.
Obviously it is not the solution I was hoping for, but I ask for the price, imagining that it is lower than the one agreeded for the bike now absent.
No: the price is the same, the guy says it's a low price for the market, he isn't collaborative and we have already lost a morning.
After his wife intervenes to support their reasons, I send them lovingly to hell and I go away.
The day before I saw bike rental shops in Thamel, the tourist district, and I suppose to be able to find an alternative: in the worst case we will tour Nepal on a Bajaj Pulsar.

So our plan, as often happens in Asia, is thrown in the trash the first day.
No problem: the guys from the rental shops are much more friendly and everyone tells me to come back in the evening when I will have the opportunity to see more bikes and choose the one i like.
We are sure that the next day we will have a bike for us, so we spend the rest of the day to go sightseeing