The biggest festival of the year, Vijaya Dashami was in full swing. This was the eighth day when every household in Nepal would aspire to slaughter an animal to appease the Goddess Durga.

We saw hundreds of goats in pens on vacant land, waiting to be weighed and sold then led to their fate.  It is traditional to travel home on this day, like our Thanksgiving and poor goats were being stuffed into the boots of cars or tied on the roof of buses.  Their heads would eventually be hung on doors and we were quite glad we would be away before too many of them appeared.