Showing posts with label Bhaktapur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bhaktapur. Show all posts

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Going medieval in Bhaktapur

 
Bhaktapur is a medieval town where little has changed in the last thousand years.  While the year in Nepal may be 2068, this hamlet of brick and chaos makes that collection of digits seem arbitrary at best.  The city's narrow lanes are flanked by leaning brick towers and the savageness of its back alleys is told in goat slaughter and starving dogs.  Truth be told, it is not a place for a first date.  You bring her here AFTER you marry her.