Saturday, 6 December 2008

Kathmandu

As things worked out we ended up staying in a place built entirely for foreigners called Thamel. It was a good place with lots of fun shops and places to eat but I ended up getting scammed the worst I've ever been scammed. It was close to robbery. So I was fed up of that place that night.

But all you can do is go to sleep and put it behind you. Next morning, it turns out Kathmandu is the best city in the world. Escape Thamel, and its like nowhere else. We saw loads and loads of religious monuments on the way in, and they all accumulate in a place called Durbar square. It's an area of the city packed with Hindu/ Bhuddist temples. My favourite thing was that while we were wondering around taking in the temples, the Nepalis were going about normal life in the midst of it. The were kids washing in the holy fountains and school students flirting while sitting on monuments of Gods.
There was also supposedly a little Godgirl who stuck her head out of the window whenever her mood was such, which we could have seen if we were lucky. We weren't lucky, but we hung around for a bit in her courtyard just in case. She stops being a God at her first sign of humanness at a certain age so I think she was about three. Her selection involved being put in a dark room and frightened by a society of men making worrying noises. Cleverly, she kept her composure, and so, is now a God.

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