Back to Kathmandu

After a long and interesting bus ride, we were back in Kathmandu.  The bus ride was about 5 hours long.  We left Pokara in fog so we didn't see the mountains but the scenes of life along highway next to the river where very interesting.

Spinning the Prayer Wheels

Wednesday we visited a friend's family and then we headed for the Monkey Temple or Swayambhunath.  This is a Buddhist temple on top of a hill over looking Kathmandu and called the Monkey Temple due to the large number of monkeys that roam the site.  There are two ways to get to the stupa.  One is up a huuuuuge flight of stairs and the other is along a gentler sloping path and stairs.  I don't mind climbing stairs but Ali, well thats another story.  Needless to say, we had the taxi take us to the back along the gentle route.  Ali seemed to enjoy this site.  She liked the monkeys but she also enjoyed the whole site.  She loved turning the prayer wheels to send prayers to heaven, and she liked the view over the city.  She also liked all the Tibetan items for sale especially the hand held prayer wheel.  We took the long flight of stairs out of the site as I figured she could probably handle them going down.  As we walked to the taxi a huge group of monkeys ran across our path which Ali enjoyed.  To finish off a good day we had pizza at the Road House Cafe in Thamel.  Another Ali favourite. 

Below is a video of the view of the city and a few shots.

View from Swayambhunath from Wendy Marshall on Vimeo.


Our friend Jagat and Ali

Ali spinning a prayer wheel





On the way down