I just returned from Nepal after a short 3 weeks with my Nepali fiance, and each time I go I am amazed at the stupidity of Nepali drivers! The women, mostly on scooters seem to drive properly, but the rest, OMG, they are horrible!

1) why does not one LOOK before entering a main road? they just honk, and blindly enter, oncoming traffic ignored. Near Lakeside I saw a man with a small helmetless kid in his lap, just swoosh into traffic without a glance left or rite, as if its the traffics duty to move and not kill them. and this happened over and over. even pedestrians just walk rite out into traffic without a thought. Years ago i saw a little boy get killed by a speeding bus in Bogar chasing a ball onto road without looking first. WHY?

2) Why do they all pass slower vehichles on blind corners?

3) Why do they speed heedlessly through towns? In Hemja, near Pokhara, just a month before i arrived, a bus speeding thru Milanchowk had killed 2 boys on a motorbike. Then the locals burned the bus and stopped all bus and taxis for a week in protest. Wouldn't it be more productive to post AND enforce strict Speed Limits thru towns? Don't they have speeding tickets?

4) Why, when they break down, do they Never pull off onto the shoulder? They just stop wherever they are, in the lane, to fix the flat or whatever, snarling traffic behind and in front. Shouldn't there be enforced laws that say one MUST pull off on the side?

5) Why do they ALWAYS leave the rocks used to block the wheels IN the road once they leave? Is it to show or just laziness? I can't count the times I've had to swerve my bike to avoid hitting rocks in the road left by some idiot bus or truck driver.

6) Why doesn't the police ever post officers along the roads to enforce any road laws? They always just sit idly in their little stations, oblivious to law breakers.

7)Why do Nepali parents NEVER teach their kids to LOOK first before going out in the road for any reason?

8) Why do they sit in a traffic jam and blare their horns continuously when theres no way it will do any good?

Don't get me wrong, i love Nepal, its culture, its women, but the Nepali (men) drivers make me mad! Until such things as this, and many other habits of Nepali men change, it is one of the reasons your country (and my adopted one) will never advance into a modern nation. Your comments are invited.