We'll be polite and won't call it monkey temple, especially as this is the most holy Tibetan site outside of Tibet. We could however tell you a lot about the monkeys' diet and their lack of fiber ...

Not much comes easy in Kathmandu and every day spent here leaves us more awed with the resilience of the Nepalis. The walk of 3 kilometers from our guesthouse to the temple is intriguingly lined with little temples, open laundry sites, open sewers and what was once a river, now more of a creek.