Best of Nepal

So... Nepal... What to say, what to say... This would be much easier if I wasn't sitting in a cybercafe in Mandi, India, listening to a bad Rick Astley techno remix... Not that I suppose there's anything that could improve Rick Astley... According to Ro, Nepal is the second poorest country in the world, only slightly better off than Somalia. I have to say though that my overall impression of Nepal was of a country that is much less chaotic and poor than India. Maybe I just didn't see the right part of Nepal. The best part of my trip through Nepal was the people I travelled with. God save me, they've switched the music to Randy Travis... I must be praying to the wrong gods... Ten days just wasn't long enough for me to really absorb Nepal. I definitely want to go back again, maybe do some trekking. So that's it... Best of Nepal... Oh, I should add that I really, really liked the olly-phants and rhinos... Ooh... Greenday... Things are looking up.
Picture... Suppose I should explain it as at first glance it would not necessarily appear to have the slightest thing to do with Nepal... I took this picture at Swayambunath, Kathmandu. It was Dipawali. Not too sure if this was supposed to be an offering of some sort, or if someone just threw it away.