Wandering around the market provides a lot of photo ops, but eventually we head back to the hotel for breakfast.
After lunch we visited one of the art schools for a short lecture on the very intricate religious art work seen a numerous souvenir locations.
Then a bus ride to Kathmandu and Durbar Square. It is definitely holy week because the traffic in streets leading into the square is unreal! Wall to wall people and motor scooters all trying to get someplace. I'm trying to keep up with the group and grab some pics at the same time. Amazingly there is this little honey sleeping on the front of a motor scooter as her dad tries to navigate through the crowd.
Occasionally we pop into side streets where the traffic is a bit more manageable and grab some shots. The variety of vendors and items for sale is mind boggling. Who buys all this stuff? A flute vendor poses for us. Nathan gives him some rupees, but true to his trade he tries to sell me a flute.
There's a kid trying to fly a kite on the street. What is he thinking? We find a guy playing some kind of one string instrument and an elderly diva sitting in front of a shrine. Then there is the Steph Curry look-alike, selling fish. Street food vendors are selling, I don't know what!
In the square itself there is a line of people waiting to get into to the temple that exceeds anything I have ever seen! If they had those signs like you find at amusement parks, it would probably say something like, "From this point the wait is two days"! |
| Selling snacks to folks in line |
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| Later we take a pedicab to dinner |
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