Hiking, Shopping, Exploring
The last few days have been fun. As I mentioned, the family that hosts my current Airbnb is great! The day before yesterday, I accompanied Madhav, one of the owners, as he did some of his work. Madhav is a lawyer and one of his jobs is working for a foreign embassy- checking out immigration issues. So we went via motorcycle up north to do some immigration detective work. The side benefit for me, was to get to see some new and beautiful scenery.
Another breathtaking view. The public water supply of Pokhara (city where I am staying) comes from this river - the Seti. It arrives to the tap untreated.
I went to get some groceries and also a couple of T- Shirts. Of course, everyone inside was greatly enjoying their shopping experience. I, however, found it difficult to shop for clothes and missed the variety, the orderliness and the consumer comforts that we enjoy in the USA.
It took me over an hour to find a shirt in my size. Nevertheless shopping is always a diversion and I eventually got my t-shirt. Just as an aside, a lot of the tshirts had slogans just like in the USA. The slogans were in English. However, the grammar, and spelling were way off and sometimes not making any sense like here is one " Men sometimes making good". Or else english letters put together without actually making a word. In defense of the Nepalese, I think all the shirts were made in China. However, the Chinese could not get away with this in USA.
The other really big perk of this Airbnb is the owner's dog Kali. He is two years old and a lot of fun. I bought him some meat at BhatBhateni yesterday. I want to sure we become best-buds!
Madhav dressed up to do his embassy work in the remote area. We did a fair amount of off-road driving to get to the client's small village. He managed to stay perfectly clean despite the mud and potholes he navigated.
View along the way!
Not sure if the bicycle helmet would help in an accident-but that's all I had...
Another breathtaking view. The public water supply of Pokhara (city where I am staying) comes from this river - the Seti. It arrives to the tap untreated.
Yesterday I walked an hour to visit the regional museum of Pokhara. It was a grassroots effort of a museum. But I at least got a sense of the local culture, different indigenous peoples of the area, etc.
Nepal is predominantly Hindu, with Buddhism and Christianity also figuring in the statistics. This exhibit was highlighting the fact that in many of the remote areas of Nepal, Shamanism and Animism (worship of Nature) are still the local religions. This display depicts typical-looking religious leaders of rural Nepal
After the museum I walked to Bhatbhateni department store. Bhatbhateni is by far the biggest building in Pokhara. It is five stories high. You can buy groceries on one floor, housewares on another, men's, women's clothing etc. You can call it the Walmart of Nepal (they have at least 15 locations).
Some men were dangling washing the windows of BhatBhateni! They looked like acrobats.
Here is the entrance.
It took me over an hour to find a shirt in my size. Nevertheless shopping is always a diversion and I eventually got my t-shirt. Just as an aside, a lot of the tshirts had slogans just like in the USA. The slogans were in English. However, the grammar, and spelling were way off and sometimes not making any sense like here is one " Men sometimes making good". Or else english letters put together without actually making a word. In defense of the Nepalese, I think all the shirts were made in China. However, the Chinese could not get away with this in USA.
The other really big perk of this Airbnb is the owner's dog Kali. He is two years old and a lot of fun. I bought him some meat at BhatBhateni yesterday. I want to sure we become best-buds!
Kali taking his afternoon siesta
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