kathmandu

Yesterday I had a very nice day. In the morning I went to the Himalaya
Buddist Meditation Centre to meditate and after that I indulged my
self with a very nice coffee at the Himalaya java cafe. There are only
a few places in India were you can have nice coffee so since i'm in
Kathmandu i relay enjoy proper coffee.

The day before yesterday we were under curfew during the day so we
could not leave the hotel. Most of the time I watch television, read
my book and practise fluut. At 6 Pm we could leave the hotel till 9 pm
for the night curfew.

Yesterday I went to Patan a very close by city. Kathmadu was still
quite from day before yesterday curfew. A lot of shops were closed and
traffic was also slow the result was that the was not so much smog and
I could see a huge range of mountains in the late afternoon sun..While
I was enjoying the later afternoon sun, the mountains and Patan Durbar
Square something else was happening in the centre of Kathmadu Durbar
square.Troubles broke out between protesters and police resulting in
more arrest by the police.

The troubles were shown on the bbc despide the problems they changed
the curfew time from 9 pm to 10 pm.

Today I walked trough the city on every corner in the city you see a
heavy present of police in riot gear and sometimes armed with big
guns.

In the evening at I had chowmein and a Tibetan beer. Tibetan beer is a
hot beer. They make it with hot water and something ...... I have to
look that up..The beer is not bad. It is a lot better then butter tea.
Butter tea is not very tasty. Todays curfew starts at 11 PM.

In the coming days I hope to travel to Pokhra.

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Meinoud
http://www.rijnentravel.blogspot.com
India overland from amsterdam to the south of India by bus and train