Today is the day!!

For those that have asked, I have finally looked at my ticket… we fly out at 11:30PM on an Air Canada flight. Travel to Heathrow in London then to Doha on Qatar Airways and the last leg of our journey will be to Kathmandu in Nepal.

While I did look at this information quite carefully when I booked the flight(s) it very quickly escaped me and have been unable to answer questions people have asked. Not knowing did not make me any more or less nervous and did not change the plan in any way. Haha.

Doha (because I didn’t know this either) is the capital city of Qatar. Looking on the map it is between Iran and Saudi Arabia. OK I probably didn’t want to know that!

There is a 10-hour time change. When it is morning here in Canada it is evening in Nepal. The flights are 7hrs + 7hrs + 4 1/2 hrs. What all of that means is that we leave Canada Friday evening but don’t arrive in Nepal until Sunday morning. Now that is a full day of travel!

There are over a million people in Kathmandu. The population density is 19,500/km sq compared to Ontario at 14/km sq. Very crowded! The city’s elevation is at 1,400m (4,600ft). Our elevation is 200m – I didn’t know that either.  This could cause us to have problems breathing as we adjust and/or get ‘mountain sickness’ which would be like a hangover without the drinking.

I am currently downloading the song Kathmandu by Bob Segar because Derrick says I have to play it everywhere I go. Listening to it now hahaha!!