Travelers' Tales Nepal
Subtitle: True Stories of Life on the Road (Travelers' Tales Guides)
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: January 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781885211149
Subjects: Travel writing; Travel - General; Travel; India; Nepal; Asia - General; Essays & Travelogues; Travel / Asia / Central; Civilization; Description and travel; Social life and customs
First sentence: THE WALK FROM DURBAR SQUARE, THE OLDEST PART OF TOWN, TO Thamel, the backpacker's section of Kathmandu, presents me two problems: sensory overload and the relative certainty of getting lost, not because there isn't a simple route, but because I find the temptations of detours impossible to resist.