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Kathmandu, Nepal
Thursday, Dec 22, 2005

Stuck in the Kat

David Murray
2007-02-23 22:42:46

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The Trip

The bus trip took ages. Well actually, 8 hours. It was a good trip. Mountains surrounded us the whole way, and as we came into Kathmandu, the whole place was covered in pollution. We jumped off the bus and Stuart went and found a minibus. We jumped on, and as usual, the busboy tried to charge us to much. Stuart had been here before, and told him to fuck off. We gave him the correct amount and let it be. Stuart then noticed that we were going the wrong way. It became worse. They told us to get off as it was a 5 minute walk. He was lying, so I grabbed our money out of his pocket. The driver yelled something, and the busboy ran to get on the bus, so I did the only thing possible, I grabbed him, and made him get our bags. He did this, and then we jumped onto another bus, and we grabbed a hotel

First Thoughts

Every man is a drug dealer, and personally, the place is a shithole. But one thing that I have noticed Is that there are little Hindu temples and Buddhist stupas all over the city. Quite amazing actually

Swayambhunath

Ryan and Megan had turned up, but as Megan was feeling like shit, we left her behind to go to this Buddhist temple. Sometimes, this temple is called the monkey Temple as there are monkeys there as well. As Stuart had been here before, he showed us a free way to get in. Once up the top, it was basically a large concrete stupa with shops selling Buddhist items. It was ok, but hopefully, there will be better temples in this town.

Bodhnath

The largest Buddhist stupa in Nepal is Bodhnath. The 5 of us caught a minibus there, and then spoke to a shop owner who showed us a free way in. It was huge. Not as big as Shwedagon in Yangon, but kind of impressive anyway. There were loads of Tibetans here as they were on there way to India. We enjoyed it but to me, it was slightly tacky as there were loads of shops selling Budhist paraphernalia.

Durbar Square Kathmandu

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