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The first thing I would suggest is buying a good mask. I got this from Amazon and it did the job: 3M 8511PB1-A-PS Particulate N95 Respirator with Valve, 10-Pack https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002YKBV2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_5CB56wy2a2Vb8 . The thing I regret taking to Nepal were my white/biege or light color clothes. I'd suggest you take darker colored clothes as they would get dirty pretty quickly. You can get a light summer jacket but it might be hot in summer to wear that. Hot wipes, soft tissues and hand sanitizer as someone has already mentioned. Good sunscreen. Maybe lots of socks! And make sure you don't take expensive shoes to Nepal. The roads are dusty so take comfy ones... Enjoy Nepal. Its beautiful and very welcoming!

Get the Lonely Planet like /u/the-invisiblefriend said. Also get this book, you'll be surprised how many walks there are that don't require a whole lot of fitness.

Also:

• Kathmandu gets much nicer once you get out of Thamel. That said, OR2K in Thamel is the shizzle, they do Nepali-Israeli food in a very funky environment.
  
  
• Eat Momos and chicken chili, both yummo!
  
  
• Visit Boudhanath and Swayambhunath.
  
  
• Check out Dwarika's Hotel and have a drink and/or a bite there. That place is incredible, it feels like you're stepping through a gate to another dimension. They actually do a BBQ on Wednesdays that'll cost you about 30 USD each and that's quite lovely.
  
  
• If you have the time/budget, visit Chitwan National Park and go bathe with the elephants. Pretty amazing experience.
  
  
• Always check the cost of flights to get from A to B. We flew to Pokhara and paid about 100 USD each. A bus would've been half that, but taken 8 hours or so.
  
  Now for some unhappier bits:
  
  
• DO NOT TOUCH ANY WILDLIFE WHILE THERE. Rabies isn't something you want to risk in a country as poor as Haiti! Should you get bitten/scratched by an animal (even superficially), go to a hospital immediately.
  
  
• Take your vaccination pass and go talk to your doctor about the journey, he/she will know what needs refreshing. I had refreshers on MMR, HepA/HepB, Tetanus and got something to reduce the incidence of Cholera.
  
  
• Have a water filtration bottle and a head-mounted LED lamp. The water quality ranges from 'ok' to 'factor 10 beyond the limits prescribed by the WHO for feces and bacteria' and power outages are a part of everyday life.
  
  Lastly, do enjoy your time. Nepal, despite being not the most user-friendly of places, is an amazing, amazing place with lovely people and stunning views. You'll be back! :-)

http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Course-Spoken-Nepali-Karki/dp/B000JQ17ZW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323922545&sr=1-1

This is the book I used to learn Nepali. It was previously used to teach peace corp volunteers. My professor and I joked it should be called basic course in broken Nepali. Only a joke, but it does a good job of teaching what is useful in daily situations. This book does not require the knowledge or the necessity to learn the script. The whole book uses the roman alphabet, a big help when you want to focus on conversational Nepali. Highly recommend this book. You can easily pick this up at any Thamel book shop (I know its at pilgrims book house) for much less than on Amazon.

Look for your local travel clinic online and go there at least a month before your trip. Get any immunizations they recommend. Then buy this on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001ANQVYU?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title

One bottle was more than enough for my family of 4. Lay all your clothes out flat in a well ventilated area and spray them all and let them dry.

Also buy Vitamin B1 100mg tablets and take one every day in the month leading up to your trip and while you are there.

My family was in Latupur, Godavari for 5 weeks and were fine. 🙂

I’d also recommend this. It’s a great water filter bottle.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01CT5PUJE?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title

Don’t eat any fresh fruit as it may have been unknowingly washed in unpure water. Any cooked foods and tea are cool. Try momo!!

Have a great trip! It will change your life.

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Here's a link I found from some guy who met Tenzing Norgay when Tenzing went to his school to deliver a speech:

>Perhaps, I was not old enough to comprehend the intricacies of citizenship and immigration, but his first words to us was calming and reassuring. He said, "I am a Tibetan!" in a loud clear voice. I woke up then.
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>Tenzing, explained at length with fine detail, why he came to be called a Sherpa. As a Tibetan refugee, there was no chance in hell of being recognized as a hero along side Edmund Hillary. With Ed's help he gained, meaning full employment as a mountain porter, and then a famous mountaineer and the story went on.

Then, of course, there's Encylopedia Britannica:

>Tenzing Norgay, (Nepalese: “Wealthy-Fortunate Follower of Religion”)Norgay also spelled Norkey or Norkay, original name Namgyal Wangdi, (born May 15, 1914, Tshechu, Tibet [now Tibet Autonomous Region, China]—died May 9, 1986, Darjeeling [now Darjiling], West Bengal, India), Tibetan mountaineer who in 1953 became, with Edmund (later Sir Edmund) Hillary of New Zealand, the first person to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak.

Aside from the interview with Tenzing's son Norbu, in which he mentioned Tenzing was born in Tibet, apparently his other son Jamling also said Tenzing was born in Tibet. He says this in his book Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest. I haven't personally read the book, so I can't confirm that, but that's what Wikipedia reports.

Norbu also said that Tenzing was born in Tibet as reported in Ed Webster's book Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest. It says that one reason why Tenzing hid the truth was because of political pressure, since admitting that he was born in Tibet would have handed a propaganda coup to the Chinese, because they would claim that a Chinese climber was the first to climb Everest. Webster and Norbu actually visited Tenzing's relatives in Tibet, including his half-brother Tashi, who confirmed that Tenzing was born at Tsa-chu in Tibet, near the monastery at Ghang-La. In fact, after Tenzing built his house in Darjeeling, he named it "Ghang-La" after the Tibetan monastery near his home in Tibet.

Well, by cheap I dont know what your budget is. But if you want a good sounding microphone for talking, find a one that is a studio/condenser microphone. It will require a usb powered pre-amp audio interface or a simple usb adapter for computer use because it comes with an XLR connection. Best bet would be to go to music stores and search for studio microphone you like depending on the price, and then buy the usb preamp or adapter separately. Also buy a pop filter.

If your budget is 7-10K, I would recommend MXL company ones and then buy usb adapters like this. MXL last very long. If you have extra budget then buy a usb preamp audio interface(make sure there is an xlr connection). The reason why the audio interface is so you have a direct hardware monitoring. They don't have any delays if you plan on hearing live through headphones.

This was my setup MXL 2008, M-Audio Fast Track. I used this for guitar and song recordings.

Until you manage to get that book, I'd recommend getting "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!":
http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Character/dp/0393316041

It's a great book about curiosity, knowledge and research from a great mind.

If you are looking for indoor use like for editing or computer use, I would recommend to get a studio headphone which is far superior than normal headphones like beats. Like this one. Really comfy and you can put them on your ears for hours and hours and is very light in weight. With tax and higher profit margin in Nepal, price should below 15 k NRs.

Some googling revealed that it should uses a figure 8 power cable you should be able to see if there's a port on the typewriter that looks like if that cable could fit, you might already have one of these cables at home! That's easy enough to buy locally.

However, the biggest issue of this is that even if is running and it doesn't need to be serviced (it most likely will be running fine, Panasonic, made in Japan, type writers are usually built like a tank.), you won't be able to find the correct ink ribbon (the ink cartridge of typewriters) without importing it from overseas.

The typewriter will most likely already have a ink ribbon cartridge inside. Though it will also most likely be dried up. Is still worth plugging a power cable, load some paper and give it a go though! Faint characters are better than no characters!

Well, Nepali Muslims are among the millions of Nepalis who've gone to the Gulf to work, and like everywhere else in the world, they have brought back Salafi ideologies. There is a strong and growing Salfist movement in Nepal, which receives funding from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE.

If you're interested, I highly recommend this book:

• Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation

Hopefully you can find it there. Aveeno ultra calming daily moisturizer is the best for acne prone skin.


Aveeno Ultra-Calming Fragrance-Free Daily Facial Moisturizer for Sensitive, Dry Skin with SPF 15 Sunscreen, Calming Feverfew & Nourishing Oat, 4 fl. oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001IJ1PBK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_fmcZDbQM3YE68

Because humans share genes. All of us have genes in common. The fact that two people may share a gene, doesn't make them particular more related to each other than all the other poeple who have ever had the same gene.

If you read this interesting book, it will explain to you that the latest (not earliest) common ancestor to all humans genetically was alive just about 3000 years ago.

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Everyone-Ever-Lived/dp/1615194045

>Useful even if can't be verified

This usually means that these characteristics aer being used (selectively) to confirm biases -in otherwords confirmation bias. We assume people from a certain place are a certain way because we disregard the information that says otherwise and only acknowledge the information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs. Reality, is far more complicated than the little categories we create and attempt to shove it into

I actually have a decent workstation PC I bought wayyy back for around 70k

https://www.amazon.com/Dell-OptiPlex-3020-Desktop-Pre-installed/dp/B00H4FUPT0

I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and the HDD to 1TB a while back, and bought a used GT 730 for gaming, and obviously the GPU is pretty shit as of 2017 right :D. The total upgrade cost around ~25k

I'm looking to upgrade the PSU and GPU this time around. I was looking to buy the 1060, but apparently it doesn't fit properly in the motherboard (obstructs the CPU fan), so the only real option I have is the 1050ti. Plus my monitor is 900p so 1060 seemed a little overkill. But if I get a reallly good deal on a 1060 I might upgrade the motherboard too.

My budget is like ~32k.

Edit: I bought this PC in 2014 btw

buddy had me bring a few hardwares. he spent about a grand and ended up getting powerful gaming pc.

here are some goods he had me buy http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130801&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127832&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231568&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KPRWB9G/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1