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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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