getting lost day.

I got lost a lot today.

It started well however, I found my way to Durbar Square and had a guided tour around a load of the temples, to be honest I think it's the kind of thing you need to see and go 'wow' at rather than reading loads about it- which let's face it would just be boring. So I'll just mention that I saw the living Goddess and her house. And there was a temple my guide called the karma sutra temple beccause of the decorations on the roof... he went into more detail about this temple than most of the others, and pointed out specifically - the horse karma sutra; which thankfully involved 2 horses - all the other carvings had people on so I was a little worried; and the image of a woman being 'fisted' by another woman... nice. We also got to have a sneak peek into the palace that wasn't technically open... Oh and there was a procession of lots of women wearing red and yellow and carring vases of water on their heads.

I came back to write about this stuff in my diary as I knew I'd forget and I knew I didnt want to bore people with excessive detail. But It was a very interesting and beautiful place to visit and there would be more to see should I ever go back there. I would reccommend it should anyone ever decide to visit Kathmandu.

I went out for lunch to an Indian vegan vegetarian restaurant which was AMAZING! It's a family run business and mentioned in the lonely planet guide. They were large servings of onion bajees and garlic bread and tofu curry... There seem to be a lot of people from India in Nepal. I dont recall the restaurant name -but if anyone ever needs to know I can tell you. I then decided to walk and try to find Marianne; the woman who's planned a lot of my trip for me. I found the place 2 hours too early so I went walkabout and got quite lost... in the end I decided it was for the best to get a taxi back. I met Marianne and we had a drink and she explained I was being taken to Chauri tomorrow by a boy who lived in the village and spoke good English. So we met him too - and his brother - who didnt appear to speak English. I had to take the two of them back to my hotel so that Pralhad Gautam knew where to pick me up tomorrow at 5am!!! ugh - to get a bus at 5:30. Anyway - I got us lost on the way back... His brother didnt seem particulatly impressed but Ptalhad Gautum didnt seem too bothered... which is a good sign for us getting on well together as I expect I'll get lost some more...

Anywho, I'd best get some kip now. I should probably have tried to upload some pics... but last time I tried my phone cable wasnt working... Maybe I'll come back down later if I cant sleep. It dreadfully hot.