NEPAL 3. KATHMANDU GUIDED TOUR

Friday April 11 2014

Patan

Jit is a local brother who took us for a Kathmandu tour in his taxi.

He took us past his KH.

... where we met Andrea, a Canadian sister who is here for a few months and loving the field service.

This lady seems pretty happy too but it's hard to say why with that heavy load.

Looking down into dusty Kathmandu valley.

The monkey temple.

Nepalese are largely Hindu but there is also a Buddhist population. Hindus and Buddhist worshipers seem to have no problem with mixing and matching religions. Buddha was actually born in Nepal.

This is happy little monkey.

And this is a grumpy monkey.

One mans trash is another monkeys treasure.

 

Throwing rice to feed the birds or for some religious rite... Who knows?

 

This lady was doing the dishes with her 10 year old rooster at her side. Many peoples humble homes are small and do not have running water inside. So many of the daily chores take place on the street.

Waiting to take someone for a ride.

Jit very kindly took us to his family home where his wife (a pioneer) had prepared a Nepali curry lunch for us.

Jit with his family and friends.

"Me-toe" (our spelling) is Nepali for delicious which it certainly was.

Back on the tour...

Alexandra asked this's man for a photo.

Durbar Square

 

Two old gentlemen watching the world go by.

A friendly face.

 

Relics from British empire.

Definitely learning.

Bustling lanes.

 

Another temple area.

Last stop, out of town to a botanical garden.

This young lady is the self appointed gate keeper.

Back to the garden and away from the madding crowd

Rather a big day but very memorable...

Lloydnalex

 

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NEPAL 2. THINGS SEEM TO START RATHER EARLY IN NEPAL

 

Everything in Nepal seems to start early. At least that's how it seems to us. It's perfectly normal for the locals...

The Bethel day starts early... morning worship starts at 6 am

Mid week meetings start early... 5 pm so that the friends can get home whilst public transport still works.

The weekend starts early... Friday and Saturday. Then it's back to work on Sunday.

Weekend field service starts early... 7:30 am group

Walking to meet the group.

Doing the washing.

 

Field service group for the Memorial campaign. There are a lot of Japanese friends. They are amazingly adaptable people and seem to learn the Nepali language very quickly. Same grammar rules as Japanese. And they can live in very humble accommodations. An example to us all.

Visiting the vegetable oil factory. I really hope I don't eat anything produced here...

Chai tea in a street side tea shop after field service.

Chai tea and a Nepali style doughnut. Very nice. I wonder where they get their vegetable oil??? Best not to think about it...

Then we walk back to bethel.

Past the grandad who babysits in his shop. Nepali people remind us of Myanmar and Cambodian people we have met in our travels before. Generally friendly and quick with a smile.

And past the little Nepali boy who lives down the lane from Bethel...

Nobody seems to mind that everything starts early. They don't seem to mind anything really...

And since the day started so early, now we have time to do some sightseeing...

Lloydnalex

 

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1. WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE WE NOW?

April 2014

Where in the world are lloydnalex now?

It is Asia... but it's not Japan...

We are north of India...

West of Bangladesh...

and south of Tibet.

That's right, we are in Nepal.

Kathmandu to be specific.

We flew in on Wednesday April 9 via Hong Kong and Dhaka, Bangladesh Airports.

Pretty proud of our packing efforts. We are actually traveling light this time with just 1 check-in back pack weighing 16 kg (35 pounds).

Always good to see some friendly faces at a foreign airport. 2 Bethel brothers, Yoal and Kailash, waiting to pick us up.

This will be our home for 2 1/2 weeks. Having got out of our bed in Sydney at 3:30 am this morning and traveled for just over 24 hours, even that bedspread doesn't look too bad to us...

The view from our room the following day.

 

We are visiting the Nepal Country Office.

With many of the roads unsealed, Kathmandu is a "very" dusty place.

During our Bethel tour we actually recorded our version of song number 120, "Listen, Obey and be Blessed". I'm slouching like that because we are sharing head phones.

Saroj, the audio technition is pointing out the generator noise that can be heard in the bits between the singing. But that is not the reason that it won't be uploaded to JW.org any time soon.

That's all for now.

Lloydnalex

 

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