Nagarkot and military
Alright guys, i'm going to try to write
in english... i want some of my 'non-german' friends to be able to
read what i'm writing too!
Wenn es dort draußen jemensch gibt,
der*die eine deutsche Version benötigt, meldet euch! Vielleicht fall
ich eh bald ins deutsche zurück :-p ...
Alright then,
last thursday and friday i've been in
Nagarkot, that's a village east of Kathmandu but still in Kathmandu
valley.
It's a place out of almost only hotels, lodges, guest houses
and some shops and restaurant, i've been told before. But actually
there exists a school too and last but not least a pretty huge
military camp... first time i've ever experienced that many military
guys around me. And actually i didn't like it! What a miracle :D
Lets start with some nice facts: i was
there with some others, german people. One of them I know from
Leipzig, we have been studying together for some time. The others are
a friend, her cousin and her sister, all of them really cool people.
We gotta see eachother soon again :-)
We went there by bus, lazyness succeeded over being activ and walk there at least so we went by bus ... the first day we walked up the hill next to nagarkot to a special view point. great himalaye view there.
In generel we were told that one should be able to see the Everest, but we're not sure whether that's right or not...
In generel we were told that one should be able to see the Everest, but we're not sure whether that's right or not...
So we basically spent there the day, hang around
and were walking around the village. As walking in the sun ist really
exhausting if one's not used to it, we went to bed pretty early, that
says around 9 or 10 and even slept in the afternoon for maybe an
hour.
Power cut did the last to keep us in
bed early ... :D
The next morning we got up before dawn
and walked up the hill again, the atmosphere was just great and
beautiful ' til the moment where we almost bumped into maybe around
100 soldiers who were staying besides the street and waiting for
there morningly training... awkward situation! I really didn't like
the feeling that there's a national army base camp around me and
training to be ready to fight and kill.
"..???...
I FIGHT WHERE I AM TOLD
I WIN WHERE I FIGHT"
I asked whether there's compulsory
military service or whether one can decide to go there or not and was
really surprised cause of the answer: it's no must to do the service
and only 1 out of 20 youngsters seem to decide to do the service. At
least that would say that most of the people don't put that high
importance in military, on the other hand that also means that there
are probably quiet a bunch of military-addicts forming a military
elite.
On other point to think of concerning
making a decision pro and contra doing military service is probably
still the caste to which one belongs in tradition. The bound of caste
weakens, but it seems to be still there at some points...
Was definetly strange being in such a
presence of military! Never experienced that before, and hope won't
be the case that often again...!
At least i was shocked by the
implicitness with which there were kinds of graffitis painted on
stones along the way through the camp and their unmistakable mission
to fight and kill.
At one point there was nothing left but
to laugh, a group of soldiers rolling and crawling in the mud,
Moaning, groaning and soughing about their poor fortune... will never
forget that in confrontation with some of these poor guys when they
feel once again superior and cocksure about their so thought imposing expression.
Lets change the topic to something more
amusing than military!
At least we arrived at a really nice
but not that crowded viewpoint and watched the sunrise. It's just
unbelieveble beautiful, the moment when the sun smirkes with her
first reys on ones face. A new day is starting and once again the
mind of the world is awaking. Just have a look on the pictures, words
are not worthy to spend on such impression:
After having got a sunburn, being
hungry and having had enough of looking into a way too bright sun we
decided to have breakfast just next to the viewpoint and then walking
down. Decision made, done, everyone happy!