进入Thamel区的街道漫步游逛，一路上你看见的，听到的和嗅到的，就是一个加满都特征的缩影。
这里的街道一般上都很狭窄，小巷很多，整个道路的衔接方式也凌乱不堪，就像一座完全没有策划的人造迷宫。因此，如果你是第一次一个人到处走走看看，你要特别留意走过的一些地标，不然的话很容易的就会迷失而回不了旅馆。（现在还好，如果你有流动网络，至少可以利用谷歌地图带你回旅馆）
走在街道上，除了千篇一律的商店旅馆之外，几乎每一条街都会有一座小寺庙。尼泊尔的寺庙是以多层造型来建造的，它有单数的屋顶，小型寺庙通常都是三层。它的入口蛮小的，大只佬如洋人要进去还得费一般功夫。里边祭拜的都是印度教的神像，在尼泊尔以Krishna或Shiva为主。尼泊尔人可说是一个相当虔诚的民族，每天早上每一座寺庙都会人来清理，然后开启祭拜仪式，过路人也会停下来烧香燃烛膜拜，一大清早你就会看见寺庙周围都会袅袅升起白烟。
除了小寺庙，有时也有佛塔。Thamel这地区的佛塔非常漂亮，坐落在一个很不显眼的内围广场，我说内围是因为这座广场坐落在口字形建筑物的中央，所以进口很小，一不留意就会错过了。今早我再次来到这座广场，发现地上已经铺上整齐的红砖块，白色佛塔伫立在中央，四周都是一些古旧的建筑物围绕着，巨大的四方形天空在塔顶上，一眼看去真的非常美丽。
在这里一大清早5点多左右就有人售卖早餐了，它是尼泊尔人常吃的一种米粉煎饼，就像我们这里的油条或Ham Chim Peng，就是把调混好的米粉浆放入滚沸的油锅里深炸，而且类型多样化，有圆形，条状，或像甜圈圈的，有些就像下图显示的那样，非常大块，造型也比较复杂。我今早走过不少售卖这种早餐食品的摊子与小店，虽然很想买一块来吃，但看见那些几乎是黑乎乎的煎油和四周的卫生状况，最后还是打消念头，所以至今也不知味道如何。
说起卫生条件，这一次当我在走着的时候，突然被一阵阵如空袭警报的喇叭声吓了一跳。刚开始时还以为是火警，后来发现到原来是一辆小型卡车释放出来的。然后我就看到居民们纷纷带着大包小包的垃圾走上前去，把它丢进卡车里，原来他是沿路巡回的垃圾车，看来这对街道整洁很有好处。
Strolling on the streets around the Thamel area enables you to get a glimpse of what its city structure and architectural features look like. Most of the streets are narrow, the lanes are just pencil-thin, they join up together haphazardly to form an undesigned maze, it’s important for you to remember certain landmarks that you pass by if you walk alone, otherwise, you will get lost rather easily and unable to return to your hotel.
One of the ubiquitous scenes you will see is the temples, they are located almost on every street. Most of them are quite small, solitary temples with multilayered roofs. Every morning, someone would initiate the praying ceremony, and a lot of the pedestrians too will stop by to pay their homage to the gods, mainly the popular Hindu gods of shiva or Krishna. Most of the Nepalese people are staunch Hindus, sacred temples and reverent praying are essential parts of their daily life.
In the early morning, some stalls or small shops already start selling the popular breakfast that they like to eat, it’s a type of deep-fried flour batter, something like our you cha kueh or ham chim peng. It can be in simple shapes or something rather intricate as shown in the photo below. I kept passing by this kind of shop, its aroma incited my appetite to give it a try, but then looking at the almost-squid ink like boiling oil and the sanitation condition around, I just refrained from getting one, so if you ask me how it tastes, I truly have no idea.
Talking about sanitation management, this time when I walked around, I got shocked by a high pitch siren that broke the silence of the early morning. When I was trying to figure out what it was, I saw residents nearby hurried out with rubbish bags in their hands. Only later I saw that people dumped their rubbish into a small truck, it is actually a mobile dump truck that goes around terrorising the residents with ear-piercing sirens to maintain the cleanliness of the city.
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