I'm living for these 18 days (2nd - 19th) at Anil's german and nepalese apartment in Bhaktapur (an hour drive away from Kathmandu, the capital city), I'm applying for my Indian visa - which I can collect on monday, so my plan worked out - and at the same time I learn and see a lot of Nepal.
Anil showed me the beautiful old town of Bhaktapur.
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| From a nice rooftop Restaurant |
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| Main means of transport |
On friday the 5th we went to his family, who lives a bit more at the country side, and I got some proper nepalese Dal Bhat (picture of Dal Bhat later) and had a closer look at a typical nepalese family.
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| View from their house |
In the evening I went with Julia and Lena - two german volunteers I had met at Anil's Café - and some other europeans, a nepalese guy and a brasilian girl to Nagarkot to go to a full moon trance party in the evening and to see the sunrise in the early morning, because the panorama there is just amazing. Bhaktapur is 1,400 meters high and Nagarkot is 2,000 meters high.
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| Sweet little juice inside |
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| Always the Mountains in the Background |
The party was interesting - not really how I party - but it was fun anyway. We later slept in nine in this room:
Very comfy!
And the sunrise in the morning.. well, I had set an alarm, but we all kept sleeping, so we missed it. :D
Sunday I was a little sick - my stomach doesn't like the food here too much, even though I do...
Monday I went to the Indian embassy and afterwards with Anil to the Pashupatinath in Kathmandu. That's a place where dead bodys get burned.
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| Face and feet are getting washed |
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| Gedenkrituale |
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| Lots of monkeys everywhere |
Anil told me a lot of interesting information about all the various rituals and traditions. For example a mother always gets burned by the youngest sun, symbol of love and care about the youngest child, and the father by the oldest sun, showing that he is now the head of the family.
Women don't have a good position in the nepalese sociaty as I've read and seen so far. At building sites I always see the women doing the hard work, but I've heard they get still less awarded for it. If a family has to put one of the kids out of school because of money, it's a daughter at first. Illiteracy is still a big issue in Nepal, but it is getting much better, because most children now attend schools.
In the afternoon Julia and Lena showed me the orphanage they work at.
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| Dal Bhat |
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| Nice view from the orphanage's rooftop |
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| Lena and one of the kids |
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| Frankfurt Roemer in a Nepalese newspaper! :D |
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| Adventskranz darf nicht fehlen |
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| The typical nepalese 4 or 5 story building, often completely on it's own |
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| A former volunteer did this with the kids. Look what one of them wrote for three most important things: Parents, education, to make my future bright |
Very comfy!
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