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


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



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.


BOUDHANATH


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


A Hindu Temple, Kathmandu


Hindu Temple of carved wood in Patan (Old Kathmandu)


Kathmandu street with prayer wheels to the left


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


A Nepalese butcher shop in Kathmandu


More of the magnificent wood carved temples of Patan, Kathmandu


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


Tibetan shop in Kathmandu



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!