C'est difficile d'arriver a Kathmandu sans en avoir deja une image, bonne ou fausse: ville de depart pour la montagne, repaire hippie, cite d'art... Avec Fred, on avait tous les deux lu le bouquin de Barjavel, Les Chemins de Kathmandu qui raconte l'histoire de deux hippies amoureux. (on vous le conseille d'ailleurs) et cela avait bien sur un peu influence notre esprit.
On doit avouer qu'il nous a fallu un certain temps d'adaptation: adapatation a la pauvrete (meme si on n'est jamais vraiment habitues), a la salete...
On doit avouer qu'il nous a fallu un certain temps d'adaptation: adapatation a la pauvrete (meme si on n'est jamais vraiment habitues), a la salete...
Mais passe ce cap, on a decouvert et visite la ville avec un grand plaisir. C'est un endroit epatant ou ce qui nous a le plus marque c'est la vie qui y regne. On trouve des echoppes partout (et on ne parle pas des coins a touristes). Ici, tout se vend, se repare, par terre, a la main, a velo. A chaque detour de rue il y a des temples, des petites cours cachees et des dieux, un regal de chasse au tresor!
Et puis, on adore certains details sympas: les vaches au milieu de la rue qui mangent tout et n'importe quoi mais que personne ne bouscule car elles sont sacrees, les statues erotique sur les temples boudhistes (on n'imagine pas cela sur nos eglises!), et aussi l'atmosphere un poil hippie qui regne encore. Bien sur, on aime moins le fait de se faire acoster en permanence pour acheter (bien qu'on nous le fasse de moins en moins, ils doivent nous reconnaitre), et on aime encore moins les regards des enfants qui crevent de faim dans la rue (quand on leur donne du pain, ils sont tellement contents!) ou pire, qui se droguent avec de la colle.
Bref, apres un ou deux jours de sentiment mitige, on peut vous dire qu'on aime vraiment bien Kathmandu maintenant, et sa vallee encore plus, mais ca, ce sera pour le prochain episode.
PS: Beaucoup de difficulte pour mettre des photos en ligne en ce moment depuis qu'on est au Nepal, desole.
It's not easy to arrive in Kathmandu without having an image in mind already, true or false: city from which you go to the moutain, hippie base, art place... With Fred, we had read just before the book by Barjavel Les chemins de Kathmandu about hippies in love, and of course it influenced a bit our mind.
We have to admit that it took us some time to get used to it: getting used to the poverty (even if you don't get really used to that), the dirtyness... But passed this, we discovered and visited the city with great pleasure. It's an amazing place when the thing that stroke us the most is the life that's there. You can find small shops everywhere (not talking about tourist stuff). Here everything gets sold or fixed, on the ground, walking, biking. Every street corner you'll find a temple, a small patio with gods, a real treasure hunt!
And we loved some funny details: cows in the middle of the street that eat everything but that nobody moves because they are sacred, the erotic statues on boudhis temples (we don't imagine that on our churches!) and also the hippie atmosphere that's still here a little bit. Of course we like way less the fact that we get approached by sellers all the time (though it happens less and less, they must recognize us now) and we like even less the look of kids starving in the street (when we give them bread, they look si happy!) or worse the one that use drugs such as glue (not sure we say that in English).
To sum up, after one or two days of mixed feelings, we can tell you that we really like Kathmandu now and its valley even more, but that will be for the next episode.
PS: lots of difficulties to put pictures online now from Nepal.
Bref, apres un ou deux jours de sentiment mitige, on peut vous dire qu'on aime vraiment bien Kathmandu maintenant, et sa vallee encore plus, mais ca, ce sera pour le prochain episode.
PS: Beaucoup de difficulte pour mettre des photos en ligne en ce moment depuis qu'on est au Nepal, desole.
It's not easy to arrive in Kathmandu without having an image in mind already, true or false: city from which you go to the moutain, hippie base, art place... With Fred, we had read just before the book by Barjavel Les chemins de Kathmandu about hippies in love, and of course it influenced a bit our mind.
We have to admit that it took us some time to get used to it: getting used to the poverty (even if you don't get really used to that), the dirtyness... But passed this, we discovered and visited the city with great pleasure. It's an amazing place when the thing that stroke us the most is the life that's there. You can find small shops everywhere (not talking about tourist stuff). Here everything gets sold or fixed, on the ground, walking, biking. Every street corner you'll find a temple, a small patio with gods, a real treasure hunt!
And we loved some funny details: cows in the middle of the street that eat everything but that nobody moves because they are sacred, the erotic statues on boudhis temples (we don't imagine that on our churches!) and also the hippie atmosphere that's still here a little bit. Of course we like way less the fact that we get approached by sellers all the time (though it happens less and less, they must recognize us now) and we like even less the look of kids starving in the street (when we give them bread, they look si happy!) or worse the one that use drugs such as glue (not sure we say that in English).
To sum up, after one or two days of mixed feelings, we can tell you that we really like Kathmandu now and its valley even more, but that will be for the next episode.
PS: lots of difficulties to put pictures online now from Nepal.
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