48b1t Chobar Again 22/1/2009
Thu : Chobar Again
- Cos of the Wednesday headaches Thursday morning I went for a run to clear my lungs.
.. So luckily my leg muscles were hard when I got run over by a motorbike. .. (when I told Rudra's friend he said "oh, that's normal !"). He hit me quite hard knocking off my glasses, but he wasn't going so fast. I don't know if it was my fault or his. I was crossing between buses stopped by the lights and he had crossed the centre line into oncoming traffic to overtake them.

- I had decided to visit Chobhar again before leaving KTM . I walked to the ringroad.. Eventually got on a super crammed bus .. . Wow the gorge was something to see, though it and the area around it’s temple were still dirty.

Thu : temple fund raising festival

I walked to Tauda village then in the distance I heard festival music so I walked there. It was temple fund raising festival.

In all the places I go there are almost only men, but this place was completely different, there very few men : the priest and men awarding the certificates and prizes for donations, but there were dozens of dolled up women waiting in line with their temple offerings. I don't understand this world ! There people are supposed to be poor and lacking in food, but they are queing up to give money and their best food to the temple. I think it's sad Surely they could put their resources into something more useful than a temple ?
... I wouldn't want anything to do with any woman stupid enough to believe in religion. so I didn't speak to them (well maybe some of them don’t believe and were only cullturally conforming, but I lost the opportunity to speak to any cos in the food tent was all spicy so I retreated to the nearby teashop which of course full of old men.

- I did meet girl who won a Hollywood award for 2006 revolution documentary.She explained the project to me, and tried to sell me a donation but I am not the person to give money to religion.


I walked back through Kiritipur. I see it's not just a suburb, but a proper town in it's own right.

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