• Temples and palaces

    February 11, 2017 in Nepal ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    So what do you do in Kathmandu? It's walking around the old town, visiting temples, the old king palaces. And talking to people, or they talking to you because they want to sell something. But it's way different to Morocco, they don't get too pushy. And they let you walk around alone. Only annoying thing are the guys in the tourist area who constantly ask you if you want a smoke. Which is highly illegal here...

    There is lot of damage from the earthquake 2015, some of the temples have just collapsed to a pile of bricks. And there are cracks in the buildings everywhere. But there is some rebuilding going on and what is there is still impressive.

    Oh, and the air is still bad. Especially as they are burning things opposite of my hotel room since yesterday...
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