Pokhara has recently gained its first department store, where you can by anything from food to cloths to upholstery and kitchenware. The store comes complete with escalators – the first in the region – which have become a bit of an attraction in themselves. When we visited we found a lady at the top of one, contemplating the steps appearing at her feet and trying to pluck up the courage to descend. With some encouragement and a deep breath she made it on with hardly a wobble. At the bottom a group of giggly ladies were trying to make it onto the up escalator, each jostling to be the last to take the plunge. Eventually they all jumped on simultaneously and promptly fell over, clinging to the disconcerting moving banisters.
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