Last days in Kathmandu

These last days are very nice and relaxing. Wake at sunrise ( of course), hotel breakfast, relax and read ( loving my Kindle thanks Tom and Kate), then venture out to a different coffee shop for second breakfast!  Yes any weight that I lost on my trek is now being rapidly replaced via yummy banana and apple pancakes!

The Hotel Holy Himalaya is really nice, clean and quiet, tucked into a little back street. I get to see the sunrise and the moon rise which is lovely.

Also it must be vegie planting time because suddenly there has been a flurry of activity in the vacant block. Not sure whey their is a soldier on the wall to the next building, but he was very interested in the planting to.

Walked west, away from old town, past the abandoned Royal palace, which is slowly being turned into a museum. It was very overgrown but you could see how majestic it had once been. In 2001 the Crown Prince murdered 10 members of the Royal family, including the King and Queen, his brother and sister, and himself. Many Nepalis believe it was actually the evil uncle who orchestrated it, as he wanted to be king himself. He became king and the .Maoists then began to rebel, with. Nepal becoming a republic in 2008.

And amazingly everywhere you go there are shrines, many of them thousands of years old. Its like a living museum, and everyone seems to pray and worship all the time.