Kathmandu, Nepal

I've finally bothered myself to retrieve the remaining pictures from Kathmandu off the camera. Here are a few street scenes that are fairly representative.




Can't remember if I mentioned the garbage strike earlier. Anyway, there was trash everywhere. Clearly it had been going on for a while.



There were thousands of dogs, and they all resembled one another. Your choices were brown or black, with ears or without ears, male or female. A fairly homogeneous lot.



More people pics:






I'm not sure what this woman was trying to accomplish:



A word about these gentleman. They were by no means the only two in this condition. A number of others wore nothing but a heavy leather piece resembling a jock strap affixed to their groins with a heavy chain. Covering the remainder of their bodies were ashes from the nearest human cremation. In Nepal, they are considered holy men. In the US, we would consider them candidates for padded rooms. They contribute greatly to my belief that Nepal will not be joining civilization for a while.




Of course there were cows wandering everywhere: in and out of traffic, along side homes, around the temples and historical sights.





As in Tibet, prayer flags flew from every building.