Foreigners stay back in Nepal to help in relief works - India Today

Villagers wait in the rain as an aid relief helicopter lands at their remote mountain village of Gumda, near the epicenter of Saturday's massive earthquake in the Gorkha District of Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Photo: APKathmandu is slowing beginning to rise from the rubble. For the last four days market places have been completely shut but on Wednesday they opened their shutters to assess the damage and begin anew. Luckily for Nepal, many of the foreign tourists have decided not to cancel their holidays and return home. They want to stay back to help rebuild Nepal.

For over 100 hours now tourists have stayed indoors in their hotel rooms but today they gingerly started venturing out. Some to take out cash from the ATMs, others to take a stroll. They may have been scared till now, but they are determined to stay and help Nepal.

Many foreign nationals have made Kathmandu their home. They are now appealing to tourists not to get scared by the catastrophe on Sunday, since things have started returning to normal.

For the shop owners of Nepal, the earthquake struck at the worst possible time of the year -- bang in the middle of the peak tourist season. For them it's going to be a long walk to normalcy.

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