Wagle Street Journal

The journey to Gosaikunda began from Thulo Syabru in midday. We meet an Israeli couple. One of them (male) was having altitude problem and they were resting there to be acclimatized. We saw lot of Israelis traveling in groups. Most of the Israelis who come to Nepal are young, just out of compulsory military service. Almost all hoteliers don’t like them in general because, one hotelier in Thamel, Kathmandu, and one in Gosaikunda told me, they are “very much demanding, less spending, making noises, and creating problems out of nothing.” But I found almost all Israelis on the trekking as humorous, friendly, nice and outspoken. Yes, some of them seemed to be little more ‘demanding’ too.

One Israeli group quickly started filling their cigarettes with joint on their arrival at Gosaikunda. Some of them were offering me the puff. I rejected. They were again ‘requesting’. Ha ha ha. At last, I avoided that humble propose by telling them that the cigarette they were using as the wrapper was not of my preferred brand. On the mean time, they were eating ‘daal bhat’, and discussing about their conflicts with Palestine with me. One of them ordered a ’spicy daal bhat’ and that really surprised me. I knew from a boy in the group that a girl in the group could sing “Ressam Phiriri…” -a popular Nepali folk song. She was here only a week before. “She is a music wizard,” a guy member in the group was telling about her.

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