Last weekend
Basanta and I visited this "crumbling Baroque palace, slowly fading on the banks of the
Khali Ghandaki...the equivalent of Nepal's
Taj Mahal" or something along those lines in my guidebook. Perhaps not quite so stunning but definitely worth the 6 hour walk in blazing heat along winding dirt
tracks through small villages and jungle. Lots of stops to cool off under
waterfalls and at springs in the forest.
Fishing
5 star
restaurant
While having a well earned beer in a similar cafe and chatting with the family who ran it, one of their boys offered to take us up to a cave on the hillside nearby...
Such a narrow entrance I didn't dare crawl in, but the boy squeezed though effortlessly (can you see him up at the top of the crack below?) while
Basanta got his
dhal batt stomach stuck for a few minutes which was quite amusing (for us) to watch, and ended up crawling on his stomach. Amazed to see the photos of stalactites and mites (above) when they finally reappeared.
Fishing
5 star restaurant
While having a well earned beer in a similar cafe and chatting with the family who ran it, one of their boys offered to take us up to a cave on the hillside nearby...
Such a narrow entrance I didn't dare crawl in, but the boy squeezed though effortlessly (can you see him up at the top of the crack below?) while Basanta got his dhal batt stomach stuck for a few minutes which was quite amusing (for us) to watch, and ended up crawling on his stomach. Amazed to see the photos of stalactites and mites (above) when they finally reappeared.
