THE PHOTO ESSAY
IN NEPAL, DON’T SIT AT The seven-hour ride on the night bus from
must try to skirt past. If your bus is in the accident,
Kathmandu to Pokhara takes 12 hours, but the seven-
the trip takes even longer.
hour return journey takes 10. The distance is about 200 kilometres. Why the difference? It depends on the number of flat tires, the number of times the bus completely loses oil pressure as it careens along the edge of the impossibly high cliffs, the number of times it runs out of gas, or the number of accidents it
We passed one such mishap. People were milling about the smashed-in front of a truck, generally looking moody. I read about the accident a few days later. The night bus right before ours had driven around a corner and run head-on into a truck that
