Thamel quarter is like a tourist ghetto in Kathmandu. It has plenty of little hotels and guest houses, bakeries selling European breads and pastries, internet cafes (100 NRP per hour) laundries (50 NRP per kilo), travel and trekking agencies and of course souvenir shops. Walking narrow streets you are all the time bothered by localc offering their products and services… I do not like it.
I escaped to Swayambhunath – I did not visit it when I was here years ago. Yhe Bhuddist temple of Swayambhunath is situated on the top of the hill on the west outskirts of the town. From Thamel it is like half an hour walk. This temple is on the UNESCO World Heritage list. I was walking long and quite steep stairs uphill another 10 minutes acommpanied by monkeys… On the top there is white stupa with altars, praying wheels, offering places – you can stay and see crowd of local people coming there to pray… Sorry, the view of the town is poor due to the cloud of smog over it…
It is my last day in Kathmandu… Almost 100 days left since I started from Poland… I pack my backpack for departure…
