Ode To Nepali Cap

03Apr07

Cocked at a jaunty tilt
to display one’s brazen style,
The humble Nepali cap
remains fixed all the while
to old mens’ scalps
and young boys’ heads,
From morning yawns
to night-time beds,
All living lads
and buried dead.
Found down busy, urban streets
and in between the rural crops,
It’s fashioned on the cheery type
well know in fast-food shops!
Of lurid pink
like bubblegum pop,
Or sick’ning brown
like gone [...]

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The Tourists That We Are

29Mar07

We couldn’t pronounce her name in Nepali, so we just called her by her nickname, Lady Luck. We were introduced by one of the park naturalists at the safari tour office. She was enormous, an absolute giant with a sagging belly and thighs like tree-trunks. She had tiny, beady eyes that were sunk into her [...]

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“Kimchi!”

24Mar07

“Pay go pa?”
“Ung, chokumb. Dha pay go pa?”
“Na chincha pay go pa! Bring on the food!”
Twelve days of daal bhat later, we sit on the sunny step in front of our hostel. Twelve days of aching legs, blistered feet and daal bhat. Not that I have anything against daal bhat, in fact it was an [...]

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“Welcome In Nepal!”

11Mar07

After a full day of traveling in an excruciatingly uncomfortable bus, we arrived at the Nepali border. The ride took longer than is should; apart from the driver stopping for a chai every hour at his friends’ restaurants, we also had a two hour wait while we waited for a new tyre to replace the [...]

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