After the weather canceled our flight to Jomsom we decided that it wasn't worth the risk of getting stuck in the mountains and moved up our flight back to Kathmandu. I'd have liked to get to go hiking up there but it would be better to come back and spend at least a month instead of the two days we had planned.
A the airport in Pokhara we met a guy named Barry Jordan, he finished up school in and has been touring since July. We shared a cab from the airport to the Kathmandu Guest House where he was also staying and ended up going out for dinner together. He'd been to most of Europe and then aross Russia, Mongolia and into China on the Trans-Siberian Railway. He told us about being in in Tiananmen Square when one of the Falun Gong protests was occuring. He was lucky to only have his film confiscated after photographing the Chinese Police arresting the protestors, they'd initally tried to grab him. In the six months he'd been traveling he'd compiled a list of stories that could fill a book. It's really gotten me thinking about doing some similar type of tour.
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