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When you’ve nothing to do in Kathmandu,
And the temples have all been seen.

The sun is hot,

The nights are not,

And you can’t go visit the Queen.

Don’t despair, even if you find your purse a little light. As long
as your Icgs still work, there are plenty of Kathmandu corners into
which to poke a curious cye or a camera lens.

By HUGH NASH
Special to The Review

Approximately 400,000 of Nepal’s 17 million people live in
Kathmandu, the country’s capital. It stands at an altitude of 1,350
meus and is surrounded by hills about 2,400 mewes high.

Atop onc of these hills is the tiny village of Nagarkot. From here, »

on a clear, crisp morning, high above the haze and pollution which
blankets Kathmandu, you can sce cight of the world’s 10 tallest
mountains - including 8,848-metre Everest which is just 70
kilometres away. An overnight stay in one Nagarkot’s guest houses
followcd by a pre-dawn trek to view the sunrise is not to be missed.

But back to Kathmandu. And things to do.

Why not visit the jail? Not many tourists do. Visiting the jail
means standing outside a six-foot wide gate blocked with iron bars
behind which stand a dozen or more prisoners. The prisoners carry
on loud conversations in various languages with friends, relations
or lawyers who stand behind a chain about 10 feet away. Guards
make sure these two groups stay apart. It doesn’t smell very good
in close anyway.

There is nearly always a Caucasian prisoner up front, white
hands gripping the bars. He talks to one or more of the volunteers
who come daily just to listen to him and try to keep his spirits up.
He needs their ears. He tried to smuggle gold or drugs into Nepal,
was caught, and will be behind those bars for four or five years.

A few blocks away a holy man sits on the base of one of
Kathmandu’s many temples. Tourists want to take his picture.
That’s okay, but he charges a rupee or two (about 10 cents). Watch
the tourists try to haggle him down a cent before capturing his

image to show to the folks back home. It’s all part of the»

bargaining game; a game played semi-seriously throughout the
city whenever there’s a buyer and seller of anything | from a peanut
to a cab ride.

There are many beggars in Kathmandu - particularily in the

touristy, old town section called Thamel. Most are legitimate.
Some have no legs. They perch on skateboards and propel
themselves through the dirt and garbage strewn streets with their
-hands, A few have-no fingers, or their upper limbs are burst like

_ pretzels. These deserve your financial attention.

The small beggar boys dressed in filthy rags, their heads and
shoulders covered by an oil-stained swatch of burlap, are the artists
Of the trade.

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“WATCHING A HOLY MAN sit beside his serpentstave is one oe

fina: to do in Kathmandu. a

| or chatting cheerfully \ with their friends, But, when a tourist

“appears, a miraculous transformation occurs,

They. lose six inches in height and their shiny skins tun palid, -

Their straight. spines curve; their sure steps become tottering

lurches; their cheerful laughs turn to slobbering whinc;, They _

_ Slagger toward the. approaching tourist while dredging up guttural

_noises from somewhere in the backs‘of their throats. They point at
their mouths to indicate they haven’ tcaten in days; maybe noteven
this year.

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If tackling a good book is “what you'd like to do, browse about an

~ the Pilgrims’ Book House around the corner form the Kathmandu

. Guest House in Thamel. The. store specializes: in Himalayan
subjects. Tis walls are covered with fiction and non-fiction storics
on Nepal, Tibet, India, Snuie and other countries with Himalayan
connections,

After you've bought a book or two, (books aren't cheap in
Kathmandu - about the only. things that aren't), take a walk out of
town. Find a shady spot under a tree at the sidé of the road. Sit
dowa, Open your book. “Hy to read. It will be difficult,

Within seconds, a gaggle of small children, some of them :

~ ¢arrying even smaller children on their backs, will be looking over.

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