Sales in nepal

I was last in Pokhara summer of 2003, and it was unchanged: the idyllic lake, the Tibetans selling crafts, the leaches in the grass...even Fishtail was still there :)

I got caught in a marvelous sudden monsoon gale far out on the lake in one of those heavy, flatbottomed rental "canoes." I had a strong paddler in the bow with a flat wooden paddle I can only imagine was swiped off a ping-pong table by the guy who rented us the boat, 2 non-aquatic twenty year old girls sitting in the middle, and I (the only experienced boatsman with the only decent paddle) was perched on the transom trying to use my legs to keep the boat in trim on a flat calm surface. Suddenly the clouds open up monsoon-style and the wind whips into a frenzy. The waves were huge for a lake that size! It was like Rembrandt's "Storm on Galilee." I was in the lee of the wave in front of me (no wind) at the bottom of some of the troughs. I had to paddle for all I was worth to keep my prow into the wind while the girls bailed like mad with their hats. The only good news was that the wind was blowing us strtaight back to the landing...

Long story (somewhat) short: It was a wild and wet ride!

Sorry to get on a tangent. I really want to know about HI's sales in Nepal. Don't let me take this thread into boat handling!
 
Remember, or know, that the average per capita annual income for a Nepali is only a couple of hundred dollars. How many of you have spent over a couple of hundred dollars on knives over the past year? I know I have just in the past month.

A $10 khuk would be very expensive for the average Nepali. When I was in Kathmandu, there were street vendors pawning khuks to unsuspecting tourists, of which I was one. I think I paid about $25 for the first one - then our Indian guide told me I paid too much. I bought the others at Gurkha House - not as good as HI, but I didn't know better at the time. Gurkha is for the tourist trade also.
 
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