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Postcard from Kathmandu, 1965

July 7, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 2 Comments

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My mom sent this postcard from Nepal to her sister and youngest brother in the summer of 1965 while on a side trip from India.

In the postcard, my mom wrote:

Kathmandu is a very interesting city. When it is clear, you can see the Himalaya Mountains, but it has been very cloudy since I arrived here. Tomorrow I go back to India. Today another lady and I are going to go to an old town near Kathmandu.

Everyone I knew who traveled to Nepal in the 80s and 90s fell deathly ill with malaria-like symptoms. Some friends worried they’d never see their families in North America again.

But my mom didn’t get sick there. She’s always had such fond memories of Nepal. I suspect it was a welcome break from India, as were Afghanistan and Iran, where she headed after leaving India for good.

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  1. mike mongan says

    October 5, 2017 at 7:34 pm

    as I remember it I stayed in the Globe resthouse in 196/6 Have always wondered what had happened to 2 American girls who ran a kindergarten for the children of women who worked in a carpet factory

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  2. Gunnar says

    January 5, 2013 at 3:55 am

    Alos I was in Kathmandu in 1965, in September.
    It was a weird place with hitchhikers/hippies from all over the world.
    Stayed in the Globe resthouse.
    Had travelled there via Afghanistan & Pakistan, managed to cross the Pak/In border just a day before the war broke out.

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