New year

The first of every new year, there is a tipical ffestival in Kathmandu and in other cities of Nepal. In Kathmandu that festival stars at Queensway, near to the royal palace, at five o'clock. When I arrived, the chariot wasn't ready, they were still finishing it. At the same time, the amount of people wasn't so huge at it was going to be later, so I could see everything. At the same time, this year something more spectacualr also happen. But slowly.

After finish the build the chariot, first arrive the official orchrest that animates the enviroment and let to the tourist and photograpers to take pictures.

Then, the arrive of the god that is in procession is waitedm and between a excited crowd is taken to the chariot. At the same time, the people dance at the rhythm of drumms and some make exhibitions of ability with a large stick aadorned with colour flags.

Once the God is in its possision, the procession starts. Hundreds of volunteers pull the chariot with the help of huge ropes and the God is taken to the white temple. I have tried to put a video, but I was unable.

Until here, all is like all the years, but this time, as soon as the chariot started to move, its top part became lead to one side, and as the chariot was going on more and more.

And in one moment, when the chariot was in a ramp, and volunteers pulled so much strong so quickly, the chariot falls down. At that moment I was taking pictures and as I was pressing the bottom I could not believe what I was watching. Some minutes before I was speaking about it with a american photographer, it's going to fall, but the true it's that you don't really expect it to become true. After the noise of the chariot falling over on bus, the crowd start to run, but luckily I was in an elevated position.