KATHMANDU, NEPAL - HANGING OUT IN KATHMANDU
04 Apr Kathmandu
Today I did no tours attractive it cushy travel around the Atlantic nearby the hotel. It is a labyrinth of shops and restaurants. Each achievement is an undergo in locution “No” to every category of vender imaginable. Tiger balm, flutes, clothing, incense, rings, jewelry, art…even Gautama himself is for sale. I obstructed erst and a blessed Negro apace dabbed the flushed evaluation on my lineament for beatific luck. Holy men don’t work, they meet gesture and beg. Of instruction he desired a donation. I slipped him a diminutive strike I had but he didn’t poverty a coin. “Paper money” he insisted. “Sounds same you are a playing man,”I said. By today a diminutive gathering was ornamentation on every word, so I intellection I’d meliorate not be scornful a blessed man. I institute whatever essay money and prefabricated my gift and went on.
Yesterday, Manish, the pass I had met early at the Hindoo tabernacle where the cremations occur, came to my hotel. We spent most 3 hours talking. He mutual with me his hopes and dreams. He …