Comparing Nepal 1988 & 2013. Temple visits with Tibetans.
Visiting Nepal after a 25 year hiatus, I felt as if I was returning to find a battered wife, one I’d left long ago when she was a beautiful, fragile young woman.
Visiting Nepal after a 25 year hiatus, I felt as if I was returning to find a battered wife, one I’d left long ago when she was a beautiful, fragile young woman.
When I arrived in Nepal in 1988, on my way home from Japan, I wrote this sentence home to friends,
“If only for 15 minutes, everyone in the world should visit Nepal.”
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| Thuli, Mulkharta village |
The airport 25 years ago was a simple Quonset hut. Even before I arrived in Kathmandu, I was
introduced to Nepal’s poverty, as Nepal Airlines had only two aircraft in
those days. One flew and the other was
in constant repair, while passengers, already checked in, waited in a decrepit airlines-owned
hotel in Bangkok, lukewarm, murky water in the swimming pool.
