stuck in kathmandu

were still in kathmandu. on monday we went to the indian ambassy to apply for the indian visa. it took hours of waiting, then paying a little fee and to return on friday. so today in the morning we went there again, both we heard that we can get "only" 4 months of visa since our country did not reply to them (...) . we left the passports there anwill get them again at 5 - hopefully with 6 months visa, probably with 4...


the plan is to go tomorrow at 7 to chitwan national park, 5 hours by bus to the west, stay there and then go to pokhara, maybe for some more trekking. flo will then go to india, i want to go more west in nepal, go to more national parks (with less people) and leave nepal in the very west - just 250 km to dehli. this area of nepal is said to be least developed since hardly no tourism... i will see!

on tuesday we went to bhaktapur, which is 12  km away of kathmandu, and the bus ride took us 1,5 hours!! mostly because of the condition of the road...!!

on the way to bhaktapur

crops drying in the streets

3 lions

in the streets

at the durbar square (main place)

part of the city center

big stupa

elephants

old lady in the streets

flo in the street of patan

monks in patan

patan

me in patan

snow mountains on the horizon

by the way, things that are normal for me now (besides all the smell and noise in kathmandu):

transportation of a couch

vegetable shop

a "car" often seen

kitchen stuff for sale

fruit shop (todays offer: bananas!)

cows eating, and i wonder about that "flag" in the back

transportation

i will now go to the garden of dreams to escape the busy city for some time and in 2 hours we hopefully get our 6 month visa for india!!! i was in that garden before, quite beautiful, but more important nobody wants to sell you anything in there...no tiger balm, no jewelery, no instruments, no trekking stuff, no smoking cheap cheap... just quiet!

everybody i met said that kathmandu is so relaxed compared to cities in india...maybe better they just give 4 months visas!!!

garden of dreams with socks

i go there...NOW