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Taken from the book "Ascent & Dissent", by Ken Vernon, 1997. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. 113:
".....The only way to describe the Thamel quarter of Kathmandu by night is to write that it is a delight. The narrow, brightly lit streets bustle with street vendors selling everything from garishly bejewelled Gurkha knives called KHURKRIS (my capital letters) to Tibetan prayer wheels, jewellery, carpets, clothing, Tiger Balm, and, very occasionally, hashish. Kathmandu is the only city I have come across where items cost twice as much from street vendors as they do from shopkeepers, presumably because the vendors target tourists and regularly make a killing from people who think they have got a bargain."
".....The only way to describe the Thamel quarter of Kathmandu by night is to write that it is a delight. The narrow, brightly lit streets bustle with street vendors selling everything from garishly bejewelled Gurkha knives called KHURKRIS (my capital letters) to Tibetan prayer wheels, jewellery, carpets, clothing, Tiger Balm, and, very occasionally, hashish. Kathmandu is the only city I have come across where items cost twice as much from street vendors as they do from shopkeepers, presumably because the vendors target tourists and regularly make a killing from people who think they have got a bargain."
