When in Nepal, I was a typical “कुवाको भ्यगुता”. If you pull out my trips to Dhulikhel (that too because of my college), I barely have traveled. Few religious destinations and few college tours saved me from embarrassment of staying all my life within the ‘Ring Road’. I did go to Tansen for my job later.
When I first (my only time) went to southern plains of Nepal, I was shocked not to see any hills around. Now in US (places I have lived so far), I have to be content with flat lands. In my recent trip to San Antonio Texas I was fortunate enough to see some foot hills; boy, how happy I was. I and my friends drove through one of the hills; the meandering roads gave me impression of driving through Sanga. Though it was not an affluent settlement (in that hill), houses there were prime examples of bioengineering.
Picture: Residents mail box at entrance to the hill (Click the picture to enlarge).
I was also kinda “kuwa ko bhagguta – frog in a pond’. but I have been to Tansen (but can’t remember much) and few other places..
Grew up in Laliput but haven’t been to Bhaktapur !! what a shame..
Most of us there don’t just travel for the sake of travelling; we need a cause. So either we need to have some jobs or relatives, and when we don’t have both outside the valley, we miss to go beyond that well. I’ve not been to Tansen, but have been to many other nepali cities by now; some of those trips were just for the sake of travelling, and before that I’d not been anywhere except Mankamana. I hope you enjoyed riverwalk in san antonio.
Ya, Riverwalk was great, wish we could clean up rivers in kathmandu and establish sth like that.