Trevie Bear & Lazy Baba Go to Kathmandu | Page 5

high up.

Chapter 7

They stood and watched the elephants for a little while longer before returning to
the busy street to continue their journey to Durbar Square. Lazy Baba had been
getting tired from all the walking and had welcomed the little break. But she knew
they must continue or else be lost forever.

As they walked the streets changed from extremely large, loud and full of traffic to
very small, loud and full of traffic. Trevie Bear and Lazy Baba were finding it
difficult to walk without being pushed and shoved as it was so busy. There were
people everywhere and very tall buildings on both sides of the small road. Every
building had lots of bright, colourful signs hanging off them. It was difficult to tell
what they were advertising because there were so many. The height of the buildings
and the sheer number of signs blocked out a lot of the sun light, so the road was quite
dark as they walked down it. They were sure they must be getting close to the town
centre then, where Durbar Square was sure to be.

Soon the road opened up into a small clearing; there were not so many buildings
and signs. The road branched off into five different directions and there was a small

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statue of a monkey in the middle of the road. The cars were treating this like a
roundabout as they decided which direction to drive off in. In each direction the
buildings grew tall and the roads were small and dark again.
“Which direction do you think we should go in Lazy Baba?” asked Trevie Bear as
they stood looking out at all the chaos.

The cars were coming in all directions, beeping at each other to move out of the
way. People were walking across the street in front of the cars as they honked and
beeped and swerved to miss them.
“I think we should continue going straight. That’s what the last sign told us to do,”
said Lazy Baba.
“Are you sure you don’t want to try going left?” he asked. “I have a good feeling
about that road to the left.”
“Oh no!” thought Lazy Baba. Here we go again. He is always doing this, whenever
they get lost anywhere, he always wants to go exploring. Why can’t Trevie Bear just
stick to the directions given by the road signs?
“No Trevie Bear. We are not exploring today. We are trying to find the Goddess so
she can help us find Becky.”
“Ok!” sighed Trevie Bear grumpily. He liked exploring. Sometimes it was fun to go
the wrong way and have to find your back again. Lazy Baba did not agree.

Having agreed to go straight, they stood on the side of the road waiting for a gap in
the traffic. There was so much traffic it didn’t look like there would ever be a space.
Luckily a rickshaw had got stuck on his way around the little statue. He was blocking

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the whole road so no traffic could get through at all. The noise from all their beeping
and honking as they waited for him to free himself was ridiculous.
Trevie Bear and Lazy Baba held hands and took the opportunity to run across the road
safely to the other side and start walking down the next small, dark street.

Chapter 8

This street was quite foreboding. It was selling mostly meat. There were empty
cages lined up against the sides of the buildings and a very strange smell came to
Lazy Baba’s nostrils. She didn’t like it. When she mentioned it to Trevie Bear he told
her to keep looking straight ahead and not to look at the stalls and shops at all. She
didn’t know why, but she did exactly as he had told her to do.

Thankfully the street was short and they soon reached the end of it. When they did,
it opened up in to a huge square filled with temples, people and markets. It was light
and spacious unlike the small, dark streets they had been walking down. There were
no cars here so it was much more peaceful without the constant beeping and revving
of engines. Lazy