ourselves a lovely quite and peaceful location in what can only be described as an extremely hectic city!

We ventured out again later to get some food and found that Kathmandu is far more pleasant at night, for one it isn’t as hectic, there is less traffic and it looks really quite pretty. Unfortunately due to a mistake with a memory card we have lost our pictures of Kathmandu so you will just have to take our word for it!

The next few days were very chilled with us popping out from time to time to check out various places, we went to Durbar Square the oldest part of Kathmandu where most of the temples are situated. Unfortunately they were doing loads of renovation works so a lot of the old buildings were covered in scaffolding! It was a nice old square but didn’t seem to have quite

the same appeal as some places we had visited and you just got hassled all the time, buy this buy that, do you want a guide, and then of course there’s the traffic to content with as well, it can kinda make you feel like arrrrhhh leave me alone but I guess you just need to take a deep breath and ignore it all! We also got accosted by some old hippy type he blessed us, put a blob of some smelly white stuff on our foreheads then asked us for 100 rupees for his pleasure - we were like oh I yeah! It was just that kinda of place, you didn’t want to get talking to anybody cause they just wanted something from you or for you to buy something, and they don’t give up!

A couple of days in Kathmandu and we were ready to have a day out of the place, don’t get me wrong it is an amazing city but it is very draining with the heat, humidity and general bedlam of the place! So we decided to go out to