He came back to his seat and gave me a crash course in Turkish. With the sounds and smells of Kathmandu still in my head I got off the bus from the airport and stood in the middle of the city, dazed and confused.

Cars and buses roared all around me and I sat down on my bags and counted my money. By some terrible oversight in my budget it turned out that I didn´t even have enough to get a bed for the night.