DisOrientated - A Weblog by Philip Sen - A Couple More Days in Nepal

May 08, 2004

A Couple More Days in Nepal - Two

Fact: women like shopping.

The day was meant to be a cultural visit to Bhaktapur, the ancient city nestling beside Kathmandu. And I do have to admit that I invested in a set of khukris (Gurka knives) for myself and others.

But the tour around the old town turned into more of a chaotic shopping spree for some of the party, which was exaperating for others.

Nevertheless, having spent so much time and money visiting ruined ancient cities it was refershing change to see the way they may have looked 500 years ago, with a living population worshipping, working, shopping, chatting and just generally getting on with it..

Just a bit of a shame that I couldn't pull off the 'my dad's a Hindu' act to gain permission to enter a certain part of a temple housing a unique sculpture. Never mind.

You can take a look at the photos on the Nepal page when they're ready, but I'd better admit that I have no clue what any of the buildings are.

At lunchtime, it was eventually broken to us. The tour guides had been holding onto our passports for 24 hours, the reason being that no ticket had been booked for us to get back to Shanghai and they were having great trouble finding one.

Would we mind staying in Kathmandu a bit longer? Why not. Nothing we can do anyway.

Off round the tourist market for more shopping and to the tourist restaurant for more eating and rather bland traditional dance. Then to the Shangri La hotel (no second night in the Hyatt allowed).

Perhaps the most surreal moment of the trip: guided to the Orwellian room 101 the door was opened to reveal... nothing. The room hadn't yet been installed with a bed.

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