BOUDHANATH - NEPAL


This is my house during this time. It belonged to the Aide de Camp to the King of Nepal and they kindly moved out of the house for me. I am not responsible for the washing hanging all over it - the 'didis' do
that!

Drolma, my sweet didi

View of sunset over the Himalayas, taken from my bedroom window. The Himalayas are all that relfected colour as the sun sets in the opposite direction to this photo.

The street outside my house, with a Nepali heading off to work!


Cottages out the back of Boudha

Brahmin cattle - back of Boudha, showing my favourite hotel on the hill to the right.

Typical Nepalese houses at Boudhanath

This must be one of the loveliest Lhasas I saw in Nepal!   He was healthy, fit and well fed and belonged to a very wealthy family. The Dalai Lama's sister-in-law's dogs were about the same, but much darker colours - those photos are all gone.

This is a priceless little photo of a mother with her two puppies in the lounge room of a Tibetan friend's house! Just as we do, they marvel at the new pups and spend hours watching the mother tend to them. No feeding in a whelping box here! She just rolled over and began feeding them on the expensive Tibetan carpet! Notice how her coat is almost a 'rainbow coat'.

This is a daughter of the mother above - I love them 'scruffy' like this! They are mat-free, clean, but so natural looking.


KATHMANDU - NEPAL


Hindu Temple of carved wood in Patan (Old Kathmandu)

A Hindu Temple, Kathmandu

The ultimate camouflage! Monkeys blend in so well with the frescoes that it's hard to see them there!
Temple in Kathmandu

Kathmandu street with prayer wheels to the left

More of the magnificent wood carved temples of Patan, Kathmandu

A Nepalese butcher shop in Kathmandu

Tibetan shop in Kathmandu

And in the midst of all the bustle of Kathmandu, a Saddhu or Holy Man sits calmly with his begging bowl!

SWYAMBUNATH

Just over a bridge and up a hill from Kathmandu is Swyambunath, home to some beautiful Tibetan monasteries

Top of one of the Swyambunath Stupas

One of the hundred stupas that surround the monastery on the left (back)

And home to monkeys, of course!



 

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