Nu Kathmandu niet meer, zoals in de jaren 1970, synoniem is van initiatiereizen, is de belangstelling voor het kleine Nepal, met zijn twintig miljoen inwoners gekneld tussen zijn grote buren, in Europa sterk afgenomen.
As he has said, Nepal is a small country of twenty million people, sandwiched between giants, and of course it has not aroused all that much interest in Europe now that Katmandu is no longer synonymous with journeys of initiation, as it was in the 1970s.Europarl8 Europarl8