We spent the first evening driving around Kathmandu and seeing the beautiful light displays - it is a major Nepali festival as important as our Christmas. All the houses turn on their lights and put candles on all the stairways. Downtown all the businesses had vertical stands of lights from roof to ground.
We walked around Durban Square - a huge gathering site for the festivities. We climbed the steps to one of the large temples and sat looking out over the gathering.
Doors had garlands of marigolds hanging from them and inside buildings would have pathways of marigold flowers.
Outside people's homes they put a pathway of stick on feet decals leading to the front door. That is so the God of wealth can find their homes. There were parades and lots of merriment. The children go door to door singing (like our carolers) and get treats or money. What an awesome evening!
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