Waiting At the Petrol Pump

The purpose in constructing a highway between the capital Kathmandu with the arterial East West highway to the south east of Kathmandu, is to relieve the strain on other older and harder-to-maintain highways linking Kathmandu to the south of the nation.  Of these the eastern most is the Tribhuvan Rajpath, built by India in the 1950s, being the most blighted by the forces of nature. Our road story begins with a pump stop to fill-up with petrol, all over the Kathmandu Valley petrol was in short supply.

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