Mountain to valley

After a lovely stay at the Dhulikel Lodge we have now arrived in Kathmandu. The valley suffers from air pollution, but so far it has not seemed bad and our biggest problem is the heat. No matter how much we drink we are always thirsty!

Our first day was a walking tour with our guide, and the ancient city seemed easy to navigate. In Tibet they have no maps, and as all the wording is in Chinese we could never find places.

Women here still do a lot of manual labor but our guide said that girls have much more opportunity than before. His own mother was illiterate, but after he completed his college education, he taught his mother to read and write. You see school children and schools everywhere, and all the kids wear uniforms.