Travel Photos - Katmandu

Scenes from the city
of Katmandu, Sept 1987

A game I didn't figure out. The men played as the boys watched with interest. We didn' see any women around the game.

A driver naps in his bicycle rickshaw.

When I bought some food or tobacco thing on the side of the road, it was served on a small clay dish. This man on the right is making those clay dishes. They are sun-dried, as you see on the left. Then, after the person uses it, he smashes it to the ground. I thought of it as the ultimate recycling.

These upside down baskets are actually chicken cages. They're used in the market, shown at the right.

A festival in the street.

Outside of a Temple.

We rented a small motorcycle to explore and came across this village outside of Katmandu.

It was great that Gary knew how to drive a motorcycle. This day-trip made me determined to learn to drive one myself â?? and I did, in the Australian outback on my friend's sheep station. And it did come in handy. In Thailand, I turned into the one who know how to drive and

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