WARNING!! I’m feeling surly for some odd reason. Maybe I’m hungry. Maybe I have a broken vertebrae and don’t know it. I’m not sure why, but it’ll color this post for sure!!
It’s located in the Thamel area of Kathmandu and is a part of the Royal Palace grounds. It cost all of 160 rupees to enter. $2.25 USD. 1,000,000 £ I think. I’m not sure. It’s not much.
I was intrigued to check it out after my friend John wrote about it last year when he visited. He went there with a guy he was clearly not into. And a pigeon of ill repute. I went there alone. I left alone.
After sitting in the shade of a tree, close to the coy ponds, watching an American try like hell to hit on one of two chicks (or both, I’m not sure) I gathered some of my own impressions of the Gardens. To me it seemed like a great place to have dreams if your dreams were mainly of close by car horns blaring, non-stop crow cawing action and watching people wish they could be closer than society was allowing.
It provided shade, which is what I wanted most at the time and if I had a computer, a sign near the front let me know they had free wifi (I still don’t understand places advertising free stuff when you pay to get in. Wouldn’t free wifi mean I could come in and use it for free if I just promised to not look at the flowers?). There’s a cafe where John got some coffee, evidently, and it sure looked nice. There are some nice looking terraced lawns with a score of people, in pairs, stretched out on the grass, something that is truly a luxury in this part of Kathmandu.
I’m sure it’s a nice place, but unfortunately I read John’s post before going there and had some of the same feelings he did. So much luxury amongst so much at the opposite end of the universe. But if you need a break and some shade and maybe even want to see fish, the Garden of Dreams is worth it.
