Day 114_to_120

We’ll finally visit the Monkey temple (Swayambhunath)!!! We have been here for a week and we haven’t visited it! What a shame!

Swayambhunath is one of the holiest Buddhist Chaityas in Nepal. It is said to have evolved spontaneously when the valley was created out of a primordial lake more than 2,000 years ago. This stupa is the oldest of its kind in Nepal and has numerous shrines and monasteries on its premises.

Guess why it is called the Monkey Temple…

Views from Kathmandu

And the temple:

Next day we’ll go alone to the Pashupatinath Temple, it is a famous and sacred Hindu temple complex that is located on the banks of the Bagmati River. We call Ram and we spend more than one hour to reach there … Just to find out that the entry is forbidden if you are not a Hinduist, so we have to resign to see just the door.

Here, you can see a bit more from the no-road that leads to our house

The door to the Temple:

And the surroundings:

After that disappointment, we try to do something useful. We need to buy some tools to disassemble the bike for the shipping. So, we are going shopping before coming back home.

Next day we all go out for a road trip, we are going to see the Himalayas near Banepa! at least in the distance. It takes around 2 hours to reach there, and we are unlucky… it’s a cloudy day!!!

However, we are lucky to see something else. It’s some kind of ceremony mixed with a banker changing old money for new money and doing loans… a quite bizarre situation. The guy with the white tunic is the banker.

That’s our best photo from the Himalayas

Next day we’ll ship the motorbike! we have to get ready! Well in fact I don’t get to do much, but Tià has a busy day. He has to drive to a cleaning center to clean the motorbike, then to the airport and there, he has to disassemble the front wheel and do all the paperwork. Meanwhile I’ll be home writing this blog (that’s a lot of work too!!).

We have a problem… the motorbike doesn’t fit in the box. Well more precisely the motorbike fits, but not the boxes with everything. Finally, Ganesh has to order a new box for our things.

To end the day we have dinner with Ganesh (the guy from the shipping company) and Simon (a crazy Canadian who send also today the motorbike, but back home) in a quite nice restaurant with traditional dancers!

After that, we meet with Lukas and some other friends in a pub in the center. We have to say a proper goodbye to Kathmandu!!!

We are excited!! In few hours we’ll be in Kuala Lumpur!!! Today we’ll spend the day between airports and flying to Malaysia. Bye bye Nepal! It has been nice!

Bye bye Himalayas! I’m sure we’ll come back!