This week, Kathmandu is a city of goats. Tens of thousands of goats — along with sheep and mountain goats — are a sign of the most important holiday of the year in Nepal: the 15-day festival of Dashain(德赛节). It’s the most important holiday of the year in Nepal. For the next five days, most parts of the country will close down. Newspapers stop publishing. Restaurants are closed. Hospitals stop to work, too.
Dashain is also a time for families to get together. Thousands of Nepali workers in the Middle East and students overseas come home, often visiting their elders in the villages. They eat ducks, chickens, pigs and, of course, goats, and they exchange gifts and money.
But this year’s Dashain, coming six months after an earthquake that killed 9,000 people and left millions of homeless people. Many Nepalis will be unable to travel for the holiday. The price of a goat has gone up to about $2 a pound. And, in general, people are feeling uneasy about the year ahead.
“This year we can’t buy a goat just for us, so we are sharing one with two other families,” said 42-year-old Keshav Thapa Magar. His house was destroyed by the earthquake. “Head soup is really good,” he explains. “We also cook the blood, very good with vegetables.”
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