Lost in Nagarkot, Nepal
Travelling while still a student most of the times directly means that you are a budget traveler. Being a budget traveler has many limitations and only one benefit. The one benefit is to be able to visit most of the places you really want to visit. The worst limitation of a budget traveler is not to being able to hire a guide, which means that one has to depend on travel sites and large format print maps. Unfortunately, when you are visiting places not that well mapped, there is the danger of getting lost. Thankfully this never happed to me, but it did happen to some of my friends.
It happened when we were in Nepal, in a place called Nagarkot. That evening I chose to stay in the hotel, but couple of my friends went out to eat. One thing about Nepal is that not matter where you eat, food is very yummy, but the only problem is that they take a long to finish cooking. It is actually good if someone takes time to cook, it means that most likely the food is fresh. Anyway, this restaurant they went at took a long time to serve the food. Finally after the food came, they ate at their pace and paid the bill and came out. The problem started when they came out.
They were surprised to see absolutely no street lights and total darkness outside. To say the least they were scared. It was so dark that the light from their cell phones barely made any difference. Finally they started walking towards the hotel. After some time of walking to the right direction, they realized that by this time they should have reached the hotel. They started panicking and called me. I asked them their location. They said they must be near the hotel. There was absolutely not a single soul in the street. Nepalese are good people, but being in the dark and not knowing where you are can still be scary. Thankfully a police officer happened to come by; they could not speak his language, but the name of the hotel was famous. They told him the name of the hotel and he walked them to the hotel. My friends thanked him with tears in their eyes. In the morning when we came out to enjoy the natural beauty of Nagarkot, my friend found his water bottle that he had left at the place they were lost; it was right at the back of the hotel.
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