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Sam sat up, stretched his arital clock on his seat-back screen Beside hiood cup of coffee,” she murmured

“We’ll be on the ground in twenty minutes”

Reotten”

In recent years, Nepal had gotten into the coffee business As far as the Fargos were concerned, the beans grown in the country’s Arghakhanchi region produced the best black gold in the world

Sam smiled at her “I’ll buy you as much as you can drink”

“My hero”

The plane banked sharply, and they both stared out theIn the minds of most travelers, the name Kathmandu evokes exotic visions of Buddhist temples and robed monks, trekkers and mountaineers, incense, spice, ramshackle huts, and shadowed valleys hidden by Himalayan peaks What doesn’t occur to the first-ti ht percent literacy rate

Seen from the air, Kathmandu seems to have dropped neatly into a crater-like valley surrounded by four towering arjun, and Chandragiri

Sam and Remi had been here on vacation twice before They knew that despite its population, Kathloh with veins of ht find a thousand-year-old temple to the Hindu Lord Shiva, on the next a cell phone store; on hfares, sleek hybrid taxis and colorfully decorated rickshaws co for fares; in a square, located directly across from each other, an Oktoberfest-the bowls of chaat to passersby And of course, tucked into thethe city, hundreds of temples and monasteries, some older than Kathmandu itself

Experienced travelers that they were, Saration and were passed through with a minimum of fuss Soon they found theround transportation sidewalk beneath aThe terminal’s facade itself was done in pristine terra-cotta, with a deeply sloped roof adorned with hundreds of rectangular insets

“Where did Selma book us?”

“The Hyatt Regency”

Reave her nod of approval On their last visit to Kath themselves in Nepali culture, they’d stayed in a hostel that happened to be located next to a yak-breeding corral Yaks, they discovered, had little concern for modesty, privacy, or sleep

Sam stepped to the curb to hail a taxi Behind theo?”

Sa a man and woes of not only each other but Charles King as well—save one startling difference While the King children had been blessed with their father’s white-blond hair, blue eyes, and big smile, their faces also bore subtle yet distinct Asian characteristics