I can't tell you how many photos I have of this mountain. It's known as Fishtail in English. You can see why I got a bit obsessed with it? Here are snaps from the taxi:
And here is happy Thom. We hired three porters to help carry kidlets and our stuff. Thom started inauspiciously by refusing to let the porters carry him and only riding on my back, then graduated to agreeing to go on Den's back but only if holding my hand at the same time. Then finally moved on to thinking that Den was the best thing ever as he did such a great monkey impression...
And here is a clean river. This is a Big Deal when you live in Kathmandu and drive over the Bagmati a lot. The Bagmati is the most sacred river in Nepal, yet it is a fetid, stinking, black torrent or sludge (depending on the season), littered with plastic bags, general detritus and much, much worse. So this beautiful, rushing clarity made us feel a bit tearful.
In Thom's words: 'S'amazin! Wanna go there!'
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