Kathmandu Valley (Kathmandu Old city, Patan, Mountain flight & Bhaktapur)

We spent our last days in Nepal in Kathmandu and in its surrounding valley. Kathmandu, although quite crowded and polluted, was a nice place to stay. We stayed in the famous Thamel district(the nepalese equivalent to the Khao San Road in Bankok) which is packed with shops selling counterfeit trekking equipment and people try to sell you tiger balm and hash. We enjoyed the western food there after eating rice, chicken tikka, cottage cheese and noodles for weeks. As we had not seen Mt. Everest, we decided to do a mountain flight (with a small 20 seat turboprop engine aeroplane) in order to see- at least from above- the highest mountain in the world. Really nice, but not super-awesome ;-)... Being in Nepal in the monsoon season did not enable us to see its whole beauty. The mountains were mostly covered by clouds and also during our flight we could not fly very close to the mountains due to turbolences. On the same day we did a trip to Bhaktapur which is a really beautiful medieval town with some of the oldest tempels and buildings in Nepal and is definitely worth visiting.

Kathmandu

Patan

Mountain flight

Bhaktapur