When Poverty Looks You Directly in the Face...
May 12th 2007 There was no way to prepare ourselves for what we were about to experience - sheer chaos, utter filth and downright poverty.
The streets of Kathmandu are unpaved, rutted and full of debris thrown into the roads by locals who appear to have no concept of a garbage can. Stray dogs, monkeys and cattle rummage through the trash in search of scraps to fill their rib-revealing bellies. Tents line
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