Yesterday morning we got up at 5:00 to meet Nutan downstairs. We made our way to Gokarna via taxi. Gokarna is not all that far away. It lies on the edge of the Kathmandu Valley and I bet is only about 10 miles from here, but took almost 25 minutes due to bad roads. Crummy [...]
On a minor note of inconvenience, we are having a tough time finding good food, cheap. Kitchens/restaurants in these parts seem either to be of the supremely grubby, guaranteed-to-make-you-sick kind, or of the backpackers’-delight-rich-and-fatty-comfort-food-and-a-little-too-expensive-to-boot variety. We’ve got a modest budget for our daily consumables, and our hotel provides a great breakfast spread. Lunch and dinner [...]
Today we got even more organized. It was a holiday once again. The schools were closed and Nutan called us bright and early to say that we should rest easy at the hotel. Nothing is going on today. So we logged footage, charged batteries and worked more on story ideas. Then at noon Nutan came [...]
Yesterday we got the chance to enter the classrooms to take still and moving pictures of the LSF girls at Takshashila Academy, an up and coming school in Kathmandu. It also houses the offices of LSF and it where we meet with Ramesh and Nutan, the LSF staff. Small. The classrooms were small. Like cramped. [...]
The government of Nepal has declared at least a three day ‘holiday’, during which basically nothing will take place. Unless, of course, you count the transition of the government from a 239 year old monarchy to a nominally democratic republic. Tomorrow (Wednesday) we plan on doing very little in the way of official business. We [...]
