Trifter

The busy Thamel district of the Kathmandu valley is packed with tourists, worshippers, native, students and hard workers. While some may be busy chewing on tobacco and leaning against their small tin-roofed shops others may be busy calling to passer-by’s while seated at the sidewalks with baskets displaying fresh fruits or flowers for sale.

Motorists flood the city from one end to the other. The busy roads are abundant with taxi drivers, automobilists and their vehicles of all sorts. Crossing the roads is a dangerous task here and special crossing traffic police are seen almost everywhere. Tiny kiosks and shops line the busy city and mostly all the products on display are on small stools outside shops. Sales attendants are usually seen sitting outside their shops while calling out to passer-bys and convincing them to purchase their goods. Bargains are very popular here as you may notice stores show-casing almost the same and even duplicate content. If you feel that the cost for a certain singing bowl or Buddha Statues for instance is more, then head over to similar retail shops where you can find different rates and prices for the same objects of interest.

Tours trek and excursion travel packages are available at almost all the travel agents who have their shops tightly packed with one another. Here again, you can expect to get the best deal after bargaining or hunting for the best available costs with travel agents.

The Nepali cuisine is cheap and served fresh.  Apart from the local delicacies you are spoilt for choice when confronted by different cuisines selling at restaurants lining rows and corners of the busy Thamel food street. Indian, Moroccan, American, Egyptian, Arabic, Pakistani, British food is all readily available at most restaurants but the most common are the tiny kiosks which sell sandwiched boiled eggs and local Nepalese Tea.