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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.

Edit:

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.

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.

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

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 can't tell you what exactly to make but I can point resources.
Yummy Nepali kitchen
Nepali Food: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4x5zKa6UVAkYqJbO-y3bPfz3IL4U1Kj5

Taste of nepal blog.
http://tasteofnepal.blogspot.com

Taste of nepal book
https://www.amazon.com/Taste-Hippocrene-Cookbook-Library-Paperback/dp/0781813093?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0


Nepali tummy blog
http://nepalitummy.blogspot.com

I also recently got started in the share market. I've been applying to IPOs and gradually learning about how to judge whether a company is fundamentally strong or not. I'm learning from a combination of reading news( news on the company, acquisitions, sentiments), books on how investing works(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/817589.Learn_to_Earn), how a business works(https://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/1591845572) and various financial metrics(P/E ratio, EPS, etc.) via data camp(https://www.datacamp.com/courses/importing-managing-financial-data-in-python, https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-financial-concepts-using-python, https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-portfolio-risk-management-in-python).

@vacacay thx for the reply. I guess they are just not here yet. This is what I would really like to get: Alienware or equal. I'll post back here if I ever figure this out :)

>conditions apply)

Of course. Happiness comes with a condition: practice.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Happiness-10th-Anniversary-Handbook/dp/1594488894

This should help if you are willing to spend a bit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1444101978/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522138637&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=complete+nepali

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, it must be this...

Edit: I've been reading a bit of Khasa Kingdom but it provides little insight into inter-racial mixing.

https://www.amazon.com/Nepal-kingdom-himalayas-Toni-Hagen/dp/B0007AYEZ0

Here,

The Complete Illustrated Kama Sutra https://www.amazon.com/dp/0892811382/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_I2FKBb6PH3SDS

not true. depending on the seller/company they do ship to Nepal I think.
For eg this book says it ships to Nepal:
https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Titans-Billionaires-World-Class-Performers/dp/1328683788

https://www.amazon.com/Technology-Alternatives-Ghost-Sensor-4-Modes/dp/B000B91L76/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1517916938&sr=8-3&keywords=ghost+meter

Be a ghost buster !

Could be a bank Loan issue.

https://youtu.be/cHKl65rmP3o