Had breakfast (a bad one at our hotel in Marpha), then the old man who promised to arrange a jeep for us to Jomsom picked us up. Well, turned out that we walked to the Trans-Himalayan hotel at thr entrance of the village and waited there for the local bus. Which never seemed to came, so - he tjen arranges us into his brothers' 4WD jeep who was going to errands to Jomsom. So we after all got the "private jeep" to Jomsom for 245 NRP (= about 2,4€). ;) He also dropped us to the ACAP office on the way, so that we could get our ACAP permits stamped over there, and then drove us as far as you can get by jeep. Nice job. Then we walked over the bridge and about 5-10 mins to the point from where the jeeps leave for Kagbeni. Bought tickets to a public jeep first (300 NRP), but 'cause they wait as long as the jeep is full of people, after n hours' or so waiting we got tired to waiting and just payed fot our own private jeep. That wasn't so much, since we had spared so much from our budjet in Marpha, so it was really ok. And we don't have that much time over here, so waisting it for waiting is really in vain. And it was much more pleasent(!) as well, when you don't have somebody smelly sitting only 1 cm away from you..to be honest.
Arrived in Kagbeni in about 45 mins via an interesting "road"; above the Khali Gandaki and the magnificient mountain views!! But inly a 4WD can manage the road. We also saw people walking there with their sherpas but nearer to Kagbeni they'll take the lower route, down in Khali Gandaki. But we thought to try to book coupla ponies & sherpas from Kagbeni and then come back with them the journey from Kagbeni to Jomsom.
Our driver brought us to the Dragon Hotel, said to be the best one in here. 600NRP/night and the room looked fairly clean, though quite small, but we took it anyway. Went down to the village to have a look at the very small, medieval village. It really was small, labyrinthy, lots of animals on the narrow streets. Smelly, too. Tourist info was closed, unfortunately, at the edge of the village, at the border where a sign said that began the Upper Mustang (to where you cannot go without the 500$ trekking permit). We had lunch in the village at a surprisingly good place, the Green Kitchen, who served organic food AND home made pasta! So I had to try, was it really home made and it was! Really good stuff!! And Niina took chicken sizzler, which was real, boneless(!) chicken filee (for the first time in Nepal) with a good sauce this time! So very recommendable place!