Long journey (19)------Kathmandu Featurette

* ** Disappearing life ***

From on the way back to Kathmandu Lumbini, plus there are 70 km, the train stopped ahead don't know what the accident, the car in the road into a long queue.

Simply go to bed, but I had several NAP, woke haven't found the car moving sign, so to get off to the side of a cliff of spring water rushed rushing feet, along the car's team, would like to see what was happening. Take a long time, forward looking, winding mountain road just a car, does not seem to be lost at the end, I went back on the patience to wait on the bus again.

Sunset slowly in the West, approximately two hours later, the car didn't move up bit by bit.

Tree back to the bus, tell me that he go to the scene of the accident, he saw a white man lying on the ground, the surrounding are blood, broken leg up on the side, it is not saved, next to a motorcycle, and one was injured but was able to walk in Nepal, estimated that white men rode motorcycles of Nepal, results and oncoming motor vehicle collision.

After all, is a life disappears and is lost in alien, I just can't bear the wait was immediately of a feeling of pity.

When our car slowly after the scene, just saw a few people are white men onto a car on the ground with blood stains are still there, I could close my eyes, silent prayer ...

Starting from Tibet journey, for the life of a devout respect and always thrilling to hear "in Tibet this place, life is very fragile!" feeling, but in Tibet as a harsh environment, I haven't really seen life very fragile scene (maybe I was in Tibet tourism depth is not enough), but in Nepal this a life so tolerant environment, I see a vivid life disappear--maybe yesterday, he still a slip away from me, to relax in the beauty of Nepal's cuisine, but today it Semiramide in other ...

There are a lot of unexpected life really, maybe took place at the moment you most negligence!

* ** Mountain Fly regret ***

Perhaps to make up for in bokhara no clear snow regret, we decided to take part in Nepal's tourism project-Mountain Fly, flying over the Himalayas, and Everest to a close contact.

Plane ticket or in the travel agency bought (USD105/person), like last time buy a ticket to l, and the staff have a friendship, although at first he vowed to go to our warranty, l will be able to clearly see the snow, the results are satisfactory.

Aircraft is 7 a.m., we would get up at half past 5, see the window slightly to reveal the Sun, today must be fine.

Taxi (Rs150/car) went to the airport, good boarding pass (flying over the Himalayas of airfare all window seat) into the Terminal to wait for notification, see the window Sun thin clouds, for the upcoming flight was extremely excited.

But time has passed, no check-in notification, for passengers in some riot, someone to go, I go to the Security Office, ask the staff, he told me the reason due to weather, today's flight was cancelled.

Has been cancelled?! nice weather how can cancel?

It was a while before they let their accepted this fact, go to the check-in service in exchange for tickets, I do not want to again tomorrow morning at half past 5 up to chance, then cancel the ticket, the staff at my ticket has been cancelled on the cover, then I would like to take this ticket, come back to buy tickets for travel agents to get a refund.

Excitedly, but can only be left with regret.

Perhaps it is this variety of regret, will sink into I have to go to Nepal's strong desire ...

* ** Sarri (Sally) ***

Nepal's culture should also belongs to India culture, not to mention similar food culture, similar to the language of India, Nepal through the TATA cars, look at the street woman's dress is able to prove it.

Nepalese and Indian women's traditional Gladiator is generally divided into two categories, one category is Sarri (Sally) and the other is a Punjabi (too long sleeves and pants with knee's plus a long scarf combo).

For travelers, put on the latter undoubtedly easier activities. However, I want to set a Sally, that kind of flying by Sally, enter Nepal, it always titillate to my heart, and that'll be my birthday, pictured in the birthday dress elegant Sally walking in the streets of India, it will be my unforgettable memories!

So I went with the Tree in Kathmandu Palace near the old Bazaar, going to pick a suitable Sally.

Here Sally shop a lot, I stood in a shop, the shop owner who immediately asked eagerly holding out a bunch of Sally's fabric, and let me upstairs to choose from.

On the second floor of the room, wooden small yard filled with a colorful fabrics, I really is overwhelming, losing proposition.

In nearly an hour left to pick the right choice, try to talk to, and finally picked up a pink purple red with a powder blue edges of Sally, edge and red feathers pictorial decoration, very beautiful. Although the price is higher than other Sally expensive (Rs2000, ordinary Sally in Rs1000 or even less can buy), I decided this point.

The shopkeeper who gave me the color of the small coat (length only to the waist) and a color dress, the patience to teach me how to wear, put on his little coat and dress, and then wrapped Sally.

Sally is actually a long fabric (generally have 4, 5 m long), around the waist for a break into soft-shelled turtle lumber, the remaining fabric carefully stacked several layers, then all the pressure off into dress waist, wrinkle free in skirt of forming a beautiful ripple, remaining 2 meters of the head-end and then back to bypass to the front, obliqueIn the left shoulder, just covered the pinch in nut at the front of the drum up fabrics. Wear good Sally, the hair, look in the mirror------really shines! complexion with this as Alice's Sally, I myself could not help but there are enthralled. Shop staff are good, next to the Tree also called nodded, shopkeeper said exactly like a beautiful girl of Nepal. I then asked him to India Nepal Sally and the Sally has a different, he said that Sally is no different, but just some India woman black, Nepal woman white.

Purple dress just fit, do not have to do, but are generally small coat is tailor-made and Sally's fabric edges also after some processing to prevent bulk.

So I pay the deposit, two hours later to pick up.

Real get Sally is the next day at noon, in the store to try on, he no longer wears off, wearing flowing Sally flickered back to the hotel.

Along the way, always worried about other people laugh at me, but only to find that their people instead of little shop owners, nor greeted me, huh, huh, what a treat me like Nepal people?!

*** 重逢 ***

And the Tree in the lounge, a tall lanky form slip away from me, looked up, turned out to be John!

John is a United States person, I know when I first arrived in Lhasa's first friend, then there is no Tree also Ali, I returned to Lhasa to Lhasa on the first day is to go with John's Sera monastery, Jokhang Temple, the second day, because their travel plans to separate different, but both have left a good impression.

John is going to be your own travel experiences to write a book about Humanities books, also says that it will put me out of it.

But then my phone in Lhasa from linzhi back stolen on the way, many friends inside stored contact is lost, including John, thought never see him again, I didn't expect to be in Canada are running into.

So I invited him to dinner with us, talk about a lot of their journey after separation.

John told me that he later went to Israel, experienced many: Israel immigration, immigration of people questioned over an hour; frontier inspection, the film through the monitor, all scrap; sleep in the hotel's roof, midnight, bullets whistling from head on, and really scary ...

Dinner in a pleasant atmosphere, and in the end John is similar to India, then we can in three different countries met, that would be a very fun.

Tree later told me he had the impression that John is also very good, said he was a fashionable feeling like a gentle softness, France.

Unfortunately, I failed to meet with John in India, because India came, I was eager to catch up time, city-to-move quite rapidly. While John's email in later told me that he's a small backpack in Kathmandu is stolen, his many articles, the most important is their a way to write many manuscripts that were lost, so, delayed in Kathmandu for a long time.

I think now I at the time of this writing, John should also during the journey, are planning to return home.

Hope of one day, really be able to see his book came out, it might still have my smile smiling photos!