P, D and I took a morning to walk to the nearby Monkey
Temple: it was an easy 30 minute walk with a tough 10 minute stair climb at the
end. Given our recent lack of exercise
that was no bad thing!
We started by walking out of the more touristy area and
through some normal Kathmandu streets.
We passed what I'm guessing was a hospital for locals – it looked
like it had taken over an old apartment block.
On the way we stopped at a small temple.
Carving on the temple ceiling
Guard
Shrine in temple grounds
It was at this point that my camera staged a mini-revolt after all the cloud photos I’d taken (I culled extensively!) and unexpectedly lost all its charge. I only have a photo of the monkey temple from a distance, and a photo I later took of my ticket, which shows the temple in what I suspect is its best light, at night.
Monkey Temple in background
The temple complex contains many small shops and stalls selling a wide variety of things to tourists: prayer wheels, prayer flags, necklaces, trinket boxes, ornamental padlocks (no, I don't get it), lots of brass objets d'art, meditation CDs, incense, etc. There were surprisingly few monkeys actually at the temple - we saw a lot more on the walk down, in the cool of the hillside. The view back towards Kathmandu was spectacular.
En route to the Monkey Temple
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