Nighlife

Kathmandu has also a pulsating tourist center with a mind-blowingly hectic nightlife. But of of course the critical situation has taken its toll. The area around the Kathmandu Guest House has mutated into quite a throbbing little quarter in the evenings, with dueling nightclub sound systems blaring across the alleyways, noisy bands of revellers looking for action, and the cops and the rikshawallahs waiting outside for closing time.