Asia by Hammock

A quick update: K'du is pretty ridiculous. The driving reminds me a bit of Vietnam, except the drivers here don't seem particularly good at it and the right of way seems to be determined by who has the loudest horn. Every other store in Thamel is a knockoff REI (outdoors store) which is pretty cool, the bakeries offer half priced eats after 7pm (Ed: you would love it and at night people wear fleeces) and there are a shitload of rooftop gardens/restaurants/bars. It also turns out that every shop, every person and everybody's brother offers treks (there are something like 527 licesnsed companies) so the touts can get a little intense.

Here is the Bodha Stupa which is a really neat Buddhist (I think....) thingamajig, very calm compared to Thamel:


And here is a fucking fantastic view of the Kathmandu Valley, Middle Hills and Big Mountains (I think....) taken from the Pashupitchu which is an awesome Hindu cremation ground/temple/park/wandering area for heaps of monkeys, goats and cows (I hate cows):