The alarm rang at 06.30 this morning but (this is unusual!) no one of us had problems getting out of bed, of course not, the Mount Everest flight was scheduled to depart at 07.45. Scheduled I said, in fact we took off at 11.30 due to poor visibility in the morning. Ferdi was feeling better this morning so he came with us. Buddha Air is the name of the company we flew with – so we were pretty nervous whether they would actually take us to the world’s highest peaks or maybe to Nirvana…
This is one of the pics we took from the plane. Mt. Everest 8848 mt. (the dark big fat triangular one on the left)
They took us to the peak, but the flight wasn’t stunning, we were even a little disappointed that the plane didn’t go closer to the peaks. Nevertheless the view was well worth it and it was kind of a big moment to see the official top of the earth.
Back on earth we went to Patan – the oldest of the three kingdoms of Kathmandu Valley.
The temples are impressive. Not only the Hindu but also the Buddhist ones, where we were allowed to enter as foreigners.
What is a pity though is the fact that this country simply lacks of money to look after them properly.
In the afternoon, we went back to Kathmandu, lunched at our preferred Italian restaurant to get a break from the Chilli-Curry-Rice-Mixes. We did some intensive shopping and when the bad conscience about the consumption rave packed us we checked out the temples on Durbar Square, whose architecture we highly appreciate. The nine-year-old living goddess that lives in one of the temples did not want to greet us, she was busy with “a ceremony” the guide said. Her position as a goddess is limited for the years in which she is still “pure”, that is until her menstruation starts.
Back in the Hotel we did some kilometres of running on the jogging track of the hotel, then gym and Spa – real relaxation….
Ps. we also went to this special painting school where Buddhists teach and learn how to draw and paint beuatifully colored kinda cotton canvases which take hours and hours of work and extreme accurancy.
Back on earth we went to Patan – the oldest of the three kingdoms of Kathmandu Valley.
The temples are impressive. Not only the Hindu but also the Buddhist ones, where we were allowed to enter as foreigners.
What is a pity though is the fact that this country simply lacks of money to look after them properly.
In the afternoon, we went back to Kathmandu, lunched at our preferred Italian restaurant to get a break from the Chilli-Curry-Rice-Mixes. We did some intensive shopping and when the bad conscience about the consumption rave packed us we checked out the temples on Durbar Square, whose architecture we highly appreciate. The nine-year-old living goddess that lives in one of the temples did not want to greet us, she was busy with “a ceremony” the guide said. Her position as a goddess is limited for the years in which she is still “pure”, that is until her menstruation starts.
Back in the Hotel we did some kilometres of running on the jogging track of the hotel, then gym and Spa – real relaxation….
Ps. we also went to this special painting school where Buddhists teach and learn how to draw and paint beuatifully colored kinda cotton canvases which take hours and hours of work and extreme accurancy.
Some orange folwers sold outside one of the main temples of Kathmandu. They're used here both as decoration and as something to workship the gods with. Very interesting and once again very colored!
Nite nite you all!I'm seriously tired...
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