City of Bhaktapur

We spent the day in the city of Bhaktapur. It has the most unaltered buildings in the Kathmandu valley. The whole city is a picture of Newar life. We had to pay $15 to get into the Durbar Square and see many of the sites, but we could see that the money they collect was being put to good use as we could see many renovation projects. They are very careful there to regulate the type of building so that any new building keeps the character of the rest of the city.
Evie spent the afternoon with Archana, her adopted granddaughter. Later Vijay and Ram stopped by to greet Evie and to say goodbye. (There are staff at the Ambassador's house).
After a great last day we have returned to the apartment to start packing.
Hopefully all of our flights will be on time. We've heard that there may be up to 6 inches of snow falling the day we return (Monday). If any of you have any say in this, could you request that it wait for a couple weeks? Thanks. See you soon. There's really no place like home.
Sister LaDonna Olson, M.A.
Deaconess Community of the ELCA

Photo with red blossoms is a poinsettia tree. They are natural to Nepal.

There was much drying of grain outside.

Not all the doors are so short but this one really caused Matt to have to duck to get inside.
We went to a paper making shop and were able to walk up stairs to the top of the building and look out at the rooftops of Bhaktapur.