meltingparappa
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VIDEO - This woman has had enough of tourists and throws rocks at them
I saw this on facebook and thus braced myself for abject open racism in the comments, and was pleasantly surprised when most people were completely empathetic to the Nepalese woman.
It's a video a hiker from the UK, being chased by a Nepalese woman for attempting to haggle, thinking the tea was overpriced. The video claims rocks were thrown at her, although it's not captured on the video -- just some running and angry shouting.
Struck a chord with me because I'm currently planning a trip to New Delhi for a wedding, and it strikes me as the ultimate tourism faux pas to quibble over pocket change in a one of the most poverty stricken asian nations.
I saw this on facebook and thus braced myself for abject open racism in the comments, and was pleasantly surprised when most people were completely empathetic to the Nepalese woman.
It's a video a hiker from the UK, being chased by a Nepalese woman for attempting to haggle, thinking the tea was overpriced. The video claims rocks were thrown at her, although it's not captured on the video -- just some running and angry shouting.
Random person on facebook said:The Tourist lady reach beyond the limits. This video also went viral in my country Nepal. The story behind is the tourist stay overnight on a tea house for free as she was agreed to eat and buy a food from them. The tourist is aware of cost but in the morning she bargain to lower the cost and paid lower then the cost in the Menu and left tea house without paying a full amount. The video didn't show everything. That is the reason why the tea house lady got mad at her. This incident happened 10-12 days of far walking distance from the motor access nearly at the elevation of 5000m. Now imagine if you were that tea house lady how much would you charge for one cup of tea? Everything has to be shipped either by helicopter, human power mule, or Yak. every tea house has fixed priced provided by conservation area project. There is no over charged price at all. Everything is written in the menu. The tourist lady went beyond the limit.
Struck a chord with me because I'm currently planning a trip to New Delhi for a wedding, and it strikes me as the ultimate tourism faux pas to quibble over pocket change in a one of the most poverty stricken asian nations.