Adjusting ‘Chill Out’ Kathmandu Nepal | Time Factor
Time-it’s the West’s favorite measuring device. Time-something Nepali have a vague understanding of. This, in my opinion, is the biggest issue for Westerners to get a hold of when visiting Nepal. If you are not in total harmony of the irrelevance of time in Nepal you will be frustrated each day you are here until you leave. In retrospect, you will process it as a country that just didn’t work for you. To a tourist, you may feel like you have to hurry up just so you can wait and that doesn’t feel good. It feels like disrespect. To the Nepali, he shows up and seems to expect you to be proud of him for doing that much. First, be diligent about the time issue. It’s important to us and it is a tool that will either spell success or failure back home. If you stay here too long you may just make everyone crazy for a while when you show up on ‘Nepali time'-20 minutes late. So, dealing with this issue is easy if you will just remember a ...