JPG

During my visit to Nepal, my group was taken to see many sights. On one afternoon, we were taking a tour of Kathmandu's Durbar Square. I had grown quite accustomed to being an outsider in this country. The hawkers swarm around you as they try to sell you their wares. They shove interesting items into your face while they are pushing past each other to gain your attention. These were the circumstances as we were trying to make our way down a street. The sellers were swarming around us while the traffic was erratic as usual with no plan of movement. The travelers tried to swerve all around us, the hawkers, and the random animals that were loose in the streets. Between the chaos of the honking of cars and the chatter of the hawkers, I almost missed our guide motioning for us to move through a doorway. When I finally got to where I could hear him, he was saying in his accented English, "Hurry! Hurry! You'll be able to see her.