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Høyt: En reise i Himalaya
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Erika Fatland1,994 ratings, 4.32 average rating, 206 reviews
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“The notoriously bad-tempered American writer, Paul Theroux, describes Peshawar with surprising warmth in his travel classic The Great Railway Bazaar.”
― High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China
― High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China
“I was met by an apologetic box office lady in the dim foyer.
"I'm afraid you are the only one who has bought a ticket for this evening, so the concert has been cancelled," she said. "People are not interested in traditional music any longer. They would rather go to a bar or the shops." She sighed.
The streets outside the concert hall were teeming with tourists, forty-five million of them, but no-one stopped, no-one was interested in hearing twenty old men play centuries-old Naxi music.
Why do we travel? I have no answer, but I do know that I will never regret having travelled all that way, halfway around the world, only for a concert to be cancelled.”
― Høyt: En reise i Himalaya
"I'm afraid you are the only one who has bought a ticket for this evening, so the concert has been cancelled," she said. "People are not interested in traditional music any longer. They would rather go to a bar or the shops." She sighed.
The streets outside the concert hall were teeming with tourists, forty-five million of them, but no-one stopped, no-one was interested in hearing twenty old men play centuries-old Naxi music.
Why do we travel? I have no answer, but I do know that I will never regret having travelled all that way, halfway around the world, only for a concert to be cancelled.”
― Høyt: En reise i Himalaya
