Ama Ghar

Meeting the kids and some of the employees from Ama Ghar, place for unprivileged children of Nepal, and the home they all share with each other..

Constitution Expiration Day

On May 28, by midnight, the Nepali Constitution expired. Since early morning that day, the city was guarded by police with expectations of pretty much anything. Streaming in and out, cars of UN kept busy taking officials into the government building. Mild protests took place throughout the day but that turned out to be it... After hours of deliberation the result (that was announced shortly before the midnight deadline) was one paragraph stating extension of the constitution for one more year.

The streets

Busy and colorful streets of Kahtmadu.

I'm here!

I left San Francisco on May 25th 1:20am, got to Hong Kong 12 hours later and Bangkok in another 4. To sum it all up, 25 hours later, I got of the plane in Kathmandu, Nepal. Received my visa for 90 days and $100 later, I left the airport to ‘enjoy’ my very first ride in the busy streets of Kathmandu.. I quickly woke up from my exhaustion to a fact, that there is about double amount of vehicles in the streets then there is space for them. My concern and suggestion on how to deal with traffic in a country I just arrived to (which I didn’t hesitate to share with the driver) seemed to be an entertainment to him and his laud laughter certainly didn’t make me feel any safer.. I felt drunk by the experience and wanted to celebrate my life after arriving alive in a small village Godavari, home of Ama Ghar foundation that I’ll be documenting throughout my stay. Beside some others, below is my very first impression of Nepal, captured from a window of a car, during this ‘hell ride’ to my new, temporary home..