Nepal Homestay - Muna'S Family Kathmandu
Goldhunga Kathmandu, 44611, Nepal
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Namaste
... he was on the aisle- after landing the man in the middle literally crawled over him to get out of the plane. Saw him waiting for the bus just like us. The airline put us up at a small hotel that we weren't sure we would return from, something just below the Super 8. Again no AAA rating. On to Kathmandu in the morning. What a place. Just as Jeff and I remember except no dead bodies on ...
Nepal High
... rick-saw and Dale negotiated a price of 200 Nepalase rupees per rick-saw to take us to the hotel. They really earned their money as they were sweating after the 10 minutes it took to get there. We tipped well. We finished the night off by having a rum and coke from the mini-bar in our hotel room. It was a mighty fine first day in Kathmandu.
On Monday, we started our half day of touring at the Swayambhunath Stupa or Monkey
Temple. There are ...
Big Puja
... cookes and biscuits. Once again I was provided with a young guide. This one was much shyer. He pointed out the places in the book when I appeared to be lost, which was fairly often, but he did not chant very much himself. I think he was not happy about getting the job – me – until I gave him the juice box that I received. Apparently only the senior monks and I received them. As with the Nilgiri Tahr, which I just wrote about for ...
Could you watch a body being burnt?
... our surprise we were invited by the Tibetan Monks to receive a blessing also. Cupping our hands we received some Holy water in our hands, which we were told to drink we looked at each other worryingly only drinking a little being aware of the effects of drinking local water, but blessedly we didn't get sick!, we each received a necklace of red string blessed by one monk and a blessing from another. This place truly was awesome.
We ...
A trek to remember
... on arrival we were overcharged for our visa by officials and the splendid array of taxi driver battling with us and themselves for our fare into town.
The next few days were spent seeing the sites in Kathmandu which involved lots of old temples (some with very promiscuous imagery) and watching Buddhist’s and Hindu’s praying peacefully together at some sites. There are many Tibetan refugees in Nepal, so again it turned out we didn’t ...

