Kathmandu 4th of May 2009 ABD - We have been in Kathmandu for two weeks now. The capital, with its pollution, crazy traffic, load shedding and constant strikes and road blocks is sometimes hard to find charming. Yet there is another side to this seemingly chaotic city. If you know those little secret places, where you can take refuge from the continuous honking and smog, where sometimes you are lucky enough to meet other likeminded people, then this city becomes quite a gem. One of those places for us is the Pilgrims bookshop in Thamel. Otherwise noisy, polluted and beggar infested Thamel, is not the most pleasant place in the city. But as soon as you enter the doors of this Bookstore, the world outside seems miles away. I get lost every time I go in
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