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- Kathmandu
- Capital
- Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
- Currency
- 25,284,463
- Population
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Kathmandu Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kathmandu, Nepal
Day 21: Bir Hospital
This is a top pick! ... erupted, but the situation didn't help what was already becoming one of the greatest bouts of trepidation I've had since arriving in Nepal. This hospital, if the infamy was to be believed, could render me sleepless for the next week. The bus dropped us ...
Two Day Part Two
This is a top pick! ... like when she returned to 'normal' life a few years down the road. On the way back to the touristy Thamel part of Kathmandu, we stopped in at a recommended travel agency and booked a trip to a wildlife resort in Chitwan National Park followed by a few ...
Yes, Kathmandu is a real place!!
This is a top pick! ... day wasn't overly eventful and mostly involved drinking coffee and taking advantage of the hundreds of wifi networks in Thamel. Kathmandu is an incredible place. Much of the outskirts are pretty similar at first glance to cities in India but Thamel, ...
Kings and Goddesses
This is a top pick! ... She was pulled in on a third chariot, and stopped to greet the king before being towed away for a madcap whirl round Kathmandu. Apparently the Kumari never gets married when she returns to human form. This is possibly sensible- imagine being married to ...
Day 5: Fermented Matzo Balls
This is a top pick! So I took my first dump today. Yeah, Asian squat toilets... not a fan. It was a sort of backfired, uneventful day otherwise. Ranu & I were set to visit the Boudhanath Stupa after she was done with the day's language training class, one of ...
the only religion with roundabouts?
This is a top pick! ... also travelling on his own talk to me. We ended up sharing a taxi to Patan, which is another town in the Kathmandu Valley. It's a bit more peaceful than Kathmandu, with some stunning old temples and beautiful little streets. And less people trying to ...
*Days 47-48: "All good things..." (Leaving Nepal)
This is a top pick! ... me to the airport. And thus, in almost the same manner it began, the ~2 months of my life spent in some random Kathmandu suburb named after a soda company came to an end. I'm flying over the South China Sea right now, bound for Singapore, and still ...
Tales of the tiller men
This is a top pick! ... apparently not paid its gas bill to India for a number of months as the price had increased 5 fold over the past year. Kathmandu is a crossroads of the millennia. A confluence of a billion Hindus to the south and a billion Buddhists to the north. Rarely ...
*Day 46: Quest of the Goat Meat
This is a top pick! ... if they even had one. I sucked it up, got the meat (local butcher shop btw = I'm officially vegetarian until I leave Nepal), and hired a taxi. The taxi got halfway there before being stopped by road construction. The only direct road between Pepsikola ...
Himalayan Trek Day 18 - Lukla To Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... views of the Himalayas. The terraced hills gave way to flatter plains and in short order we were on the ground in Kathmandu. KC escorted us to our hotel via taxi. We went through the motions with some repeat room rate negotiations, then ...
*Days 34-35: "He just needs love."
This is a top pick! ... poured out. It makes a pretty good lullaby. He slept well I think. I did not. I've changed my flight to leave Nepal a weekish early... the nerves are buckling. ---Vital Signs--- Yetis Hunted = 12 Tibetans Freed = I have now single handedly freed all ...
Day 1, Pt.2: Landing in Nepal
This is a top pick! So yeah, I land, the organization guy, Suganda, is relieving there to meet me, and off we go to meet the Nepali family who'll be giving me a home for the next two months. It's on the outskirts of the city, in their equivalent of a suburb I guess, which ...
A goat's life
This is a top pick! ... to let me know if he fancied a beer on arrival! I had a bit of a lazy day on Thursday and went to a cafe outside the Kathmandu guest house for a coke early evening. And this random guy asks me if my name's Andrea! 'Twas Ben- turns out he'd e-mailed me ...
Check-In Post
This is a top pick! There shall be no entries between now and sometime early next week, due to increasing busy-ness and time at the internet-less orphanage. The next post will be long and epic, however. I promises. Quick Bullet Points of News: - Spent last night at the ...
Day 3: Thamel
This is a top pick! Stan, Norman, Guy Who Owns The Hut, and Girl Whose Name I Forgot all left the hotel early for a four day trek through the southern jungle, won't be seeing them again until at least Monday. We "slept in" till about 8ish, though I woke up early to ...
Two Days in Hot Springs Country
This is a top pick! Another beautiful day for trekking... About an hour before we reached Tatopani the path became a real mess and the path just disappeared under rubble. We had to pick our way through the slatty rubble which slid (and which was sloping) and we thought of ...
Day 6: The Hill
This is a top pick! ... all going en masse to the local school for some construction and painting duty instead, since the road infrastructure around and especially in Kathmandu is paralyzed. Today (day 7) is a historical moment for Nepal, it's the day the King is ...
Day 7: The King Deposed
This is a top pick! ... . I tried and failed to call him back about an hour later. The political madness expected in central Kathmandu wasn't taking place, so following the school work eight of the volunteers including myself hitched taxis into Thamel to run ...
Days 35-39: The Tikka
This is a top pick! ... game at another point. Great fun all around. This particular orphanage shift ended with Christina & I meeting with the nearby Kathmandu Medical College's principal in an attempt to talk them into sending their students to do regular health check-ups ...
Chilling in Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... all try to squeeze down at once, all honking their horns. They were reassuringly all as before, but the surprise was Thamel, Kathmandu's tourist hub, had had a major 'clean-up'. The huge piles of sun-warmed rubbish and their flies and smells, the mangy ...
Relaxing Kathmandu
This is a top pick! ... . I was feeling pretty flat so we walked around it slowly then went up on a roof top restaurnat (yep everybuilding in Nepal has put in a rooftop restaurant..bloody steps...) hee... for some tea and veggie momos - delicious before making our way back ...
One big black Aeroplane and Nepal
This is a top pick! ... the world, and if you don't know what a stupa is...take a gander at my pictures :) So thats our sightseeing in Kathmandu, we are planning to bus our way over to Pokhara tomorrow (a seven hour bus) and we will then begin a ...
Last turn of lingering worm
This is a top pick! ... on the xenophobic cake, a visa hammer slams down too. So, waltz past the riot police outside the China Embassy in Kathmandu , and request that this permanent Hong Kong resident would like a visa to pass through China . No way, bro. You ...
Day 2: The Mutant Rat
This is a top pick! The sound of cows & roosters & farm stuff woke me up around 5am and I lied in bed dozing until 7ish. Then there was a knock on the door and the grandfather barged on in chuckling and shouting gibberish, giving the official wakeup call. He saw ...
first impressions of Nepal
This is a top pick! ... takes only 5 minutes. Before we know it, we are in a taxi riding towards the Ambassador hotel. This is my first trip to Nepal. Kathmandu is a strange fifteen minutes ahead in time of Delhi and perhaps it is true to say that this is true not just in ...
Days 25-26: The Wedding
This is a top pick! ... !PS: Saw some graffiti on the taxi ride back and realized "wow, it's been a really long time since I've seen graffiti." Kathmandu, run down and crowded as it is, seems utterly devoid of crime. ----Vital Signs---- Hand Sanitizer Depleted = 90% Time ...
Day 27: Resam Phiriri
This is a top pick! This entry is gonna be a bit rushed, I'm due for dal bhat soon and want to catch up on blogness:Melissa left for good today, shedding many bittersweet tears with us and Druba, who she'd become quite close with. This marked the third time so far ...
Day 33: The Weight-Loss Blues
This is a top pick! We joined the Brits on their daily shift at Landless Clinic today, if only to see and experience the riverside shantytown it serves. Landless (the neighborhood) itself wasn't quite as bad as I expected... many of the homes had brick or concrete walls, ...
'Motorway Services'
This is a top pick! It's 1.30 p.m. on the Pokhara -Kathmandu highway. I'm four hours into my bus journey. I'm sitting beside an old man with a bad cough, the product of which he frequently hacks up and projects through the window with impressive oral dexterity. My health ...
Day 22: Construction Work
This is a top pick! ... a goofy English balloon-man who gave us all little balloons bent into this or that shape. He spends his time in Kathmandu darting from one orphanage or school to the next, amusing the kids with his balloon skills. We got his contact ...