The Thamel is the most busy part of the city with merchants lining both sides of numerous adjoining streets. The main place for the tourists to wander around and still a street on its own with cars and bikes rushing by.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Thamel
The Thamel is the most busy part of the city with merchants lining both sides of numerous adjoining streets. The main place for the tourists to wander around and still a street on its own with cars and bikes rushing by.
The first days of our half a year adventure
It has been almost a month since we arrived in the sunny and
dusty capital city of Nepal – Kathmandu. The first signs of arriving at the
roof of the world were a bunch of hills surrounding the Kathmandu valley – the most
bristling and lively part of the country. The next signs were indifferent
airport guards, long queues for tourist visas, crazy traffic with specks of
cows on the streets here and there, dust, polluted air and narrow streets.
Our destination of our arrival day was Aishworya Children
Home – the home for me and my fellow traveler Flavia for the next half a year.
There are about 40 children in the orphanage and for the
next six months we are going to volunteer our time and skills for them. Our
main task is to help them with homework,
to improve their English by speaking to them and to play various games
that would develop their thinking and reaction.
In the first day we were greeted warmly by approximately 20
smaller children, age 5 to 10. Each one of them came forward, greeted us with
the accustomed “Namaste!” and palms
put together as in prayer in front of them. Each told us his or her name and
asked “What is your name?” At the end
of it we were dizzy from the many different sounds and words we had heard.
The director of the orphanage is Nirmala Ghimire with her
daughter Pramila as an assistant director. Pramila speaks almost perfect
English and she is the one who showed us around the house, introduced with the
staff and lead us into our room on the second floor. The room has four windows
and is called the five-star suite for its good quality of the air.
In the first few weeks we were given freedom to acclimatize and
get accustomed to Nepal, Kathmandu and the children. So for a week we traveled
each day to a different part of the city – Thamel, Pashupatinath, Swayambhu and
Bouddha all fell before us.
The impressions of this first month will be better explained
by a host of pictures…
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