Street walking: Kathmandu, Nepal

Thamel is where most travelers stay so there are many shops selling everything.

The streets are a mixture of tailor, hiking, souvenir and restaurants. 

John enjoyed walking around the various bookstores in Thamel but most were filled with the exact same books and postcards as the last.

Living in Korea I take for granted instant movie downloads but in the rest of the world, people still buy pirated DVD's

Even in Nepal, mobile phones are big business.  So is getting your iphone or blackberry hacked.

There are dozens of shops selling North Face products for dirt cheap prices.  I wonder how many are legit?

Bikes and building line the streets.  Buildings appear taller than wider here.

You can see various foods being sold as you walk along the dirt road.  I Nepalese version of a fruit shop?

Kids are kids in any country and a broken brick net stands in for the real thing.

"You want rickshaw?" Asked at least 1,000,000 times.

Just outside the main traffic areas.  The city slowly devolves into dirt roads and scrub.

Kathmandu's garbage.