RE: Night Rain in Kathmandu
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Funny how some people don't care if it's raining and keep walking lol
It's very dark to be only 8,20 tough, and that's definitely early to have empty streets
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If it's warm and you are heading home - why not? I actually had a plastic raincoat with me but I just didn't want - I would sweat in it and got wet anyway (bhave a powerful fan in the room so I can dry clothes easily. :)
Sure... After Thailand with 24h stores almost at each street corner and after big cities of SEA, you have to get used to this disappointing early night desolation in Nepal/India.
maybe they are afraid of bad persons around in the evening or it's just culture?
I think, it's more a culture - going to sleep a bit after the dark - people do it in villages with farm animals waking up 6 am + no electricity until recent times in many villages in Asia. That's a traditional way. And they keep doing this since everything is closed and streets have bad illumination, and all dogs are out, lol, until they acquire the big city lifestyle along with infrastructure.
In 2014, I had a flight Shanghai - Kuala Lumphur - Kathmandu, it was my first time in Kathmandu, arrived at late night. And my thought was "the city got bombed before my arrival" - dark houses - just rough outlines in the darkness like ruins, and dark, dead streets.
Kathmandu 2025 is better, but still darker than, for example, anywhere in Southeast Asia, and blackouts 3-4 times a week for 15-30 minutes usually. I am sure there are place in tourist center, Thamel, like bars open until late... But I stay far from there (and I don't need bars).
But Kathmandu isn't a village, but a cultural center, many cultural people, it has been this for many centuries.