Very well done…..A wonderful overview and perspective. Although I will ask how much was shot by drone vs handheld video….
I enjoyed revisiting Kathmandu, having been there twice. Once, in the year 2000 when I trekked to Everest Base camp and Kalla Patar (18,500 ft), and once after entering Nepal through the Gate of Friendship at the Chinese/Tibetan border. I was saddened by the tremendous destruction from the earthquake that destroyed the pagoda in Durbar Square and was happy to see your film of the scaffolding and reconstruction going on.
Dave:
Yes, I knew you had been to Everest...amazing. Hey Dale, how you doing on editing video from your latest trip?
Hi Dave S:
The friendship bridge at Kodari?
My wife and I were thrilled to get the hell out of Tibet. It was a grim drive daily for a week along the widely spaced villages, and the "hotels" were awful with rock hard beds, bad food, and bumpy roads. When we walked across the Friendship bridge into Nepal, it was a relief. We stayed at the Yak and Yeti Hotel in Kathmandu (love that name).
Now you know what I do for a living every day...edit, edit, edit. Can't wait to see it Dale. Good Luck.
I spent a few weeks alone in Tibet in the 80's, I loved every minute of it! But I was young, adventurous and immortal then
All the aerial footage is by drone. Flown from the rooftop of my hotel in Thamel. Ground footage shot by DJI Poc 2
Kathmandu is very polluted. It’s all of them smog, smoke and dust.
This video is just an brief introduction of Kathmandu. I have more unprocessed videos of the places of interest there. I will post it later. Stay tuned. Sadly I couldn’t drone at Swayambunath as it is too close to the airport.
Exactly! I wish they have better infrastructures. It is such a beautiful place and they should spend more to improve infrastructures as their main income comes from tourism. And what really swept me off my feet was the filthiness of the rooms at the tea houses, sheets not change (God knows how many people used the same bedding sheets), toilet was probably washed ages ago, no hot water, and no electricity.Yes, sadly the infrastructure / services can't really cope with modern packaging etc.
Weekly, people would just throw their rubbish onto the street, sweep their shops out into the streets, and collectors would come by to themselves sweep it up and take away in open dump style trucks.
The rivers through town (Bagmati & Bishnumati Rivers) were full of rubbish
No one would drink tap water, well, no one in their right mind that could afford the bottled water, which from what we saw everyone there did, tourists and locals.
Thankfully the products there matched people very low incomes, from memory 1lt bottled water was about AU$0.20c, a roll of toilet paper AU$0.15c . . . and if you drank the local water you'd probably be using a lot of toilet paper !!
I remember our 'hotel' had tepid water once in our perhaps 8 overall nights staying in town, the rest of the time it was very cold, and at anytime, from the rank smell of the water, you would come out smelling worse than you went in !!
Anyway, those are the experiences of travel, and the things you remember like yesterday.
Along with the Nepalese people being some of the kindest you will find.
The country is too poor to rebuild infrastructure. I hear ya on the state of cleanliness there, and sporadic electric supply (especially in other cities like Pokara). The kindness of the people is a strong draw...
