February 2003
Kathmandú, Nepal

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters’ last World Conference took place between the 21st and 27th of February 2003, in Kathmnadu Nepal. Radio Sagarmatha was the host of the conference.

You can browse the site of the conference at: kathmandu.amarc.org. An important result of this conference is the Kathmandu Declaration.

Jim and “The World’s Most Dangerous Blonde” traveled to smoggy Kathmandu, Nepal in February 2003 for the AMARC8 International Community Radio conference. Jim has attended AMARC conferences is Vancouver, Managua, Nicaragua, Oaxtepec, Mexico, Dublin, Ireland, Dakar, Senegal, Milan, Italy and Nepal.

Look Out! A Yeti! A playful yeti took part of the Welcoming Ceremony for
the AMARC Delegates at the Yak & Yeti Hotel in downtown Kathmandu.

Delegates from around the world and locals ham it up for the cameras.

Their Royal Highnesses, the King and Queen of Nepal.

Combining two of Jim’s favorite subjects; political intrigue and bamboo. This photo, discretely taken through a bamboo grove, shows the heavily fortified US Embassy in Kathmandu. Two civilian employees were killed by Maoist insurgents at this spot in 2001. You can just make out the Embassy seal through the bamboo culms.

Slightly blurry covert shot of machine gun nest atop the entrance to the Ministry of Finance.

The Maoists have the government very skittish.

Onward to temples and elephants!

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