Sights

  • Lush green lands

  • Brightly painted houses
  • precious children

  • Columns made to look like trees with faux vines

  • Beautiful kids in school uniforms: skirts, knee
    socks, and ties
     
  • Intricate Hindu shrines
  • Many small stores with lots of the same junk
  • Men in Nepali hats

 

  • Vegetable stalls with okra, cauliflower, squash
    and eggplant

Sounds

  • Crowing roosters
  • Duck quack

  •  “Namaste” greetings
  • Motorcycle engines
  • Horns honking

  • Blacksmiths’ hammer clinking
  • Ringing of bells to call for prayer at the shrines
  • Boiling oil that sizzles the onions/dumplings that are freq cooking

Smells

  • Cow poop
  • Eminent rain
  • Chicken coops
  • Stray goats, cows, and ducks!