Nepal essay (1): a first look at Nepal

One of the essays: Nepal

A taste of Nepal

Author: Maple Ridge http://blog.sina.com.cn/wildmapleridge of

Nepal is the Himalayas mountain in a landlocked country, bordering with China's Tibet in the North, East, West, South, surrounded on three sides surrounded by India, land for long shape along the Himalayan terrain is East-West direction, something about 850 km/h, North-South width only about 200 km, but the gap has more than 5000 meters!

(Kathmandu, temples)

Years ago, I followed the company's business group to Nepal, the plane was late, missed stops unexpectedly in Hong Kong for three days, we finally arrived at the airport to board the aircraft of the Royal Nepal Airlines.

(Royal Nepal Airlines)

Cheap flights to Kathmandu flights, passengers are mostly Nepal, some are from Europe, the United States, we have several Chinese people are very eye-catching.

After the departure of the aircraft, the captain began a voyage to inform you, from the pilot-in-speech accent can know he must not locals, the estimate is a member of the United Kingdom. Cabin crew are Nepal, aviation, Miss amiable shortly after take-off began to prepare meals to passengers.

(Pretty Nepal Airlines air hostess)

In a few hours of the voyage, there is a very strange thing: lots of Nepal the passengers get round, not sitting in his seat to rest, but took off his shoes, barefoot sat on the floor at the rear of the aircraft, much like the domestic migrant workers by train is like sitting on the floor between the carriage, they don't mind if the flight safety, the flight attendant who no one came forward to block.

In the evening, we finally arrived in Kathmandu airport, in the fill out a customs declaration, I found that to passengers to declare all bring, even a small pen, ball pen such small things heranzailie, is so amazing, so you can see how this country is poor.

Kathmandu airport was built in the gully, aircraft taxiing down the runway, you can clearly see the steep cliffs on both sides of the runway, slightly accidentally drop down will be, even not be hacked, it is difficult to survive, we in Nepal during the inspection, Thai Airways flights to because of a rainy weather, poor visibility, the aircraft crash landing into mountains.

(Kathmandu airport)

Golchha company sent representatives to the airport to meet us, and we get to the hotel, we stayed in the hotel called the Yellow Pagoda Hotel, Kathmandu city Palace main gate facing Burbar Marg Street.

(Kathmandu, new Palace)

The hotel is a small three red-brick building, with a burning loudaoli strange spices, strange smell the whole building.

Room facilities are very simple inside, no TV, but there is a similar movie "Lenin in October" antique telephones, no dial pad and press, to pick up the phone, directly on the microphone and said: "switchboard, get me XXXX. "Admission of the first night, we had a power outage, hotel candlelight through the streets with dark, only a street from the other end of the Palace, with a faint light.