Another fun day of Tihar. Firecrackers everywhere, music, dancing, lights, people. The streets were packed last night for Tihar. The women dress up in beautiful clothes, everyone is happy and greeting each other with "Namaste, Happy Tihar". For the record, it's year 1130 for the Newari and 2066 for the Nepalese. I was in the bhat-bhetini market yesterday morning and was looking at buying some cheese. The expiry date said 2066 and I thought 'what the..." but now I get it.
We walked all over the place last night after a yummy Indian meal at the Third Eye in Thamel, tandoori chicken, palak paneer, veggies, naan, rice, cucumber raita. We wandered the streets from Thamel to New Road through the Andra Chowk. Every store paints a path to their store on the road and decorates it with flowers, candles and spices, to entice the goddess of wealth, Laxmi.
Packs of boys were running around everywhere lighting firecrackers. One pack threw a firecracker right at my feet - make the badeshi jump. They were funny -I took a photo of them. It was really noisy all night, the lights were beautiful. This is a very impressive festival. Go Nepal! I made a short video of the night,
watch it here.
Another fun day of Tihar. Firecrackers everywhere, music, dancing, lights, people. The streets were packed last night for Tihar. The women dress up in beautiful clothes, everyone is happy and greeting each other with "Namaste, Happy Tihar". For the record, it's year 1130 for the Newari and 2066 for the Nepalese. I was in the bhat-bhetini market yesterday morning and was looking at buying some cheese. The expiry date said 2066 and I thought 'what the..." but now I get it.
We walked all over the place last night after a yummy Indian meal at the Third Eye in Thamel, tandoori chicken, palak paneer, veggies, naan, rice, cucumber raita. We wandered the streets from Thamel to New Road through the Andra Chowk. Every store paints a path to their store on the road and decorates it with flowers, candles and spices, to entice the goddess of wealth, Laxmi.
Packs of boys were running around everywhere lighting firecrackers. One pack threw a firecracker right at my feet - make the badeshi jump. They were funny -I took a photo of them. It was really noisy all night, the lights were beautiful. This is a very impressive festival. Go Nepal! I made a short video of the night, watch it here.
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