The medieval cities and villages of the Kathmandu valley has adopted a practice of charging far-away people a large sum of money, not-so-far-away people a smaller sum of money and burgers, naturally, no money to enter their cities. Somehow it all reminded me of history lessons of city states of Europe of the medieval times.Â
Not such a bad idea though, I try to tell myself that it's going to the upkeep and restauration works (and as claimed in Bhaktapur: waste management) so that I feel my over 2000 npr investment in Nepali historic infrastructure has not gone to some official's daughter's wedding.