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It is so funny but do you still want to know the reason why?

I was born and bought up in the New Road area at the heart of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. After I finished my schooling, I choose the faculty of business administartion for my further studies. 

The accounts module was the most difficult subject for me, so I decided to go for extra classes at Asan Chok which is hardly 10 minutes walk from New Road. I used to take the straight way to Asan Chok via Indrachok but few times I also took the short cut when I went with my friends. There are so many small and narrow streets in Kathmandu, it is very confusing.

And that was the day when I was alone, still decided to take the short way… I got lost and was late for my class, oops!

At home I spoke with my sister and told her what happened - she immediately gave me a new name called “KATHMANDU KO PAKHEY” which means a “Pakhey of Kathmandu”. Pakhey, is actually a villager from a completely Remote Area, who doesn’t even know how to cross the road as he might not have seen a car in his life. It was actually very embarrassing as she just didn’t care and called me with this name infront of anyone and teasing me all the time. The limit is there for everything. I challenged her “ONE DAY I WILL TAKE HER AND SHOW HER EVERY PART OF NEPAL, JUST NOT KATHMANDU”.

After graduation, I took training for Tourist Guide and did a diploma in Tourism Management & Ticketing, as well and further studies on Tourism Trade and destination management .

So the day came to prove, I am not “PAKHEY” at all.

I was out for a walk with my dear sister and I asked her pointing different temples, monuments, if she knew anything about it?  She replied “Nooo”. I explained to her even about who and when it was built. And without losing a second I said “You don’t know because you are a “KATHMANDU KO PAKHEY”. WOW, THAT WAS ACTUALLY A GREAT MOMENT. AAAHHHH, I was so relieved.

And till now I am involved with tourism, with work experience in different countries in tourism, now working for OJM Travel & Himalayan Footsteps.

I would like to congratulate the people of Bundanoon, 100 miles south of Sydney, Australia, for banning the use of bottled water.

I would like more people, especially tourists to start purifying and filtering their own water for drinking.

The amount of waste produced by bottled water is just out of control. Even here in the U.K people have been conned into buying bottled water, even though we have some of the safest cleanest drinking water in the world.

I suggest for travellers to get a recyclable reusable drinking bottles and go online or to your local camping shop to get your purifying kits before you go. You can also get good advice from all good travel clinics

Please check out this link for more water facts…..

http://www.traveldoctor.co.uk/sundries.html
http://www.allaboutwater.org/environment.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottled_water#Waste