Three Kingdoms in One Day
We enjoy the Diwali festivities and traditions. We don’t enjoy the fireworks in Mumbai which are set off all night and are less about pretty colours and light and are more about the loudest bang for your rupee. For us it is a good time to escape the Mumbai madness. In the past we have traveled to Catholic areas where Diwali is not celebrated as enthusiastically. The verdant terraces of the hills around Kathmandu Following the vegetable man on my morning run This year we decided on Kathmandu which is still predominantly Hindu but a fireworks ban from the government means that the traditional Diwali practices are observed without the city sounding like it is in the throws of violent revolution. After chasing accommodation, we settled on two nights in Patan and two nights near the small village of Chandeshwori on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Diwali celebrates the victory of light over darkness, hope over despair and from a season...