D'un stupa à l'autre

At breakfast in the morning, we met a German who is married to a Nepalese woman and has been coming to Nepal every year for 20 years. He put together a small sightseeing program for Kathmandu for us. We started with the World Peace Stupa. We're not sure if that's what it's called. The name is unpronounceable for us, but there are about 20,000 monkeys hanging around there. As if it weren't enough to flee from the monkeys, we also had to flee from Indian tourist groups. We still haven't really figured out why at least ten times (!) in the 1 hour we were there, Indians approached us and wanted to take a photo with us. Then we are taken as a family in the middle, just like in a family picture. And since each member of the tour group wants their own photo with us, these photo sessions feel like an eternity. After that, we went to another stupa: the biggest stupa in Kathmandu. On the way there, the children rebelled so much that we were forced to take a break in a café and calm the children down with shakes and momos. The stupa was impressively large. After that, we returned to our hotel. Luckily, or unfortunately, there were about 20,000 shops around us that sold all kinds of hiking gear. We went shopping extensively there and bought many things that we believed we would need for the hike. Of course, everything was of high quality and only from brand manufacturers. Since we didn't want to walk any further, we wanted to take a rickshaw to a restaurant. Unfortunately, the driver didn't know where the restaurant was, although he said he did, of course. After driving in the wrong direction, we told him we had to go somewhere else. He then asked others standing around, and in the end, we discussed with seven other Nepalese people where the restaurant was. In the end, we just walked there. Since we weren't quite sure if we could tolerate the food in Nepal, we decided to take a precaution: we bought a really delicious Nepalese whiskey and drank it several times a day. We were willing to make this sacrifice for our health. After the long shopping trips, we wanted to relax in a real luxury hotel. So we went to the Dwarika Hotel and almost fell asleep on the sun loungers there. After that, we just went back to the hotel.