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In Pokhara in Nepal the hills are lovely

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23241) 7 Oct 22

Nepal is a gift of nature. The entire country is situated in the hills. The city of Pokhara which is next big city after Kathmandu has lovely scenic beauty. The outfit of the native people is also awesome. The weather is also...

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Are you my Dad?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Apr 20

We went to a wedding in Kathmandu, Nepal, back in January and came home just as coronavirus was starting to impact. The ladies at the wedding wore the most beautiful saris. Some of the men were in Western suits but many wore the...

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It's now 2077 in Nepal

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Apr 20

Before CV (coronavirus) we spent three weeks in Nepal and attended a Hindu wedding there. Before we left home, we were sometimes frustrated trying to get a straight answer to questions like ‘what date is the wedding’. We could...

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Too creative to eat

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 2 Mar 20

The collage shows some of the novel decorations that were on show at the Hindu wedding that we attended in Kathmandu, Nepal, recently. We saw the same sort of creativity in Thailand many years ago. We don’t see it much in...

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This discussion isn't about Lumbini Temples but about steps per day

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 23 Feb 20

We don’t have fitbits or pedometers but we discovered while we were in Nepal that Vince’s phone was recording the number of steps we took each day. I’ve read somewhere that the 10,000 steps you’re supposed to walk each day was...

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An unusual skill

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Feb 20

While in Kathmandu, Nepal, we stayed in a hotel in the Thamel area. It was reached by walking down a narrow lane. There were shops either side of the lane. Each one was locked up at night by pulling down a roller-door and...

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Soothing bamboo water feature

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Feb 20

In Nepal, we took a bus from Kathmandu to Pokhara. As it was going to be a nine-hour journey, we paid for seats in a tourist coach rather than one of the local much smaller buses. We stopped several times. A buffet lunch was...

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Gold, gold and more gold

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Feb 20

About a month ago, we attended a wedding in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was a Hindu wedding and very different from anything we’d ever been to before. The bridal couple were from the Brahmin caste which is the highest of the castes or...

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Drinking tongba

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Feb 20

While in Nepal, Vince indulged in a drink called ‘tongba’. He was under the impression that it was a speciality of the Sherpa people but Wikipedia says it is the ‘traditional and indigenous drink of the Limbu people of eastern...

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Graffiti or street art?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Feb 20

We saw very little graffiti in Nepal while we were visiting. Rubbish and litter was another matter. Of course, graffiti has gained a new respectability with being renamed ‘street art’. I wonder if there is a distinction between...

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Nepali remnants from the earthquake

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Feb 20

The photo is from Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal. There was a lot of damage here from the earthquake and a lot of restoration work is going on. One big building is being restored with funds from China. We went through an area...

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Where there is a will, there is a way

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Feb 20

When I wrote about the table tennis ‘net’ I’d seen in Pokhara, Nepal, Sharon (@simone10) said in her response: Where there is a will there is a way and I was reminded of that last night as we tried to get my computer connected to...

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Some Nepali animals we've seen

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 7 Feb 20

I’ve put up a collage of some of the animals we’ve seen here. The photo of the monkey was taken at the wedding. There are monkeys in Lumbini too; in the actual town. I saw one go from a rooftop into a tree then hand over hand...

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Vince takes photos of a young man

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Jan 20

Shortly we’ll be leaving this hotel to move nearer to our other Kathmandu friends. They are actually from Lumbini but are staying with a relative for the wedding of their daughter. We were taken to their house last week and I took...

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A safe haven for a dog

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Jan 20

Tomorrow we leave this hotel in Kathmandu and move to one which will be closer to the wedding venue. On the way, we have to stop at a tailor’s opposite the Australian embassy and pick up a daura surawal or traditional Nepali suit...

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The reclining Lord Vishnu

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Jan 20

Last Saturday, we were taken to see the reclining Lord Vishnu in the Budhanilkantha Temple. The statue is considered the largest stone carving in Nepal. It is also said to be floating but, as no-one is allowed to touch it, it...

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Spoils from Nepal

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Jan 20

On Vince’s last visit to Nepal in 2018, he was given several gifts to bring home to me. One was a hand-knitted jumper which was actually meant for him but fits me better. The other was a Nepalese type cap sent home as a gift to...

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One person's memories of the Nepali earthquake

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Jan 20

One of the buildings at the Durpar Square was devoted to explanations and descriptions of the 2015 earthquake. Many pieces of masonry have been salvaged and tagged so they can be repositioned when the buildings are reconstructed....

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Would you like a gharial on your wall?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Jan 20

When we toured the Royal Palace Museum in Kathmandu, we saw quite a few stuffed animal heads on the walls and two complete tigers standing on their hind legs either side of a staircase. On one wall was the preserved head and skin...

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Visiting the Budhanilkantha Temple in Nepal

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 25 Jan 20

Today we did 7008 steps and, according to Vince’s phone, this included 13 flights of stairs. We went to visit the family of the girl who is being married and whose wedding we will attend in four days’ time. We took a taxi out and...

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