Friday, 22 April 2011

The local bus

Words and pictures can't convey the squashedness, heat, sick, smell, swaying and bumpiness of the local bus... but here we go



Waiting for the next one... perhaps 2 more hours until we manage to squeeze on...




And yet this all seems like luxury after a trip in the front of a lorry with 13 others on top of the furnace of an engine. A couple of people swung precariously out of the open gap where the door had been forced open and the vehicle sometimes failed to steer, start or stop, or went backwards instead of forwards.

Fortunately more sophisticated forms of transport available to Kathmandu.