Returned to Kathmandu to view some of the surrouding sights. This included the biggest Tibetan stupa outside Tibet, where hundreds of worshippers walk clockwise around its base. More and more Buddists join the procession as sunset approaches, chanting and spinning prayer
wheels as they do so.
It was a welcome relief to sit in a rooftop cafe and observe this as moments earlier we had visited a very important and sacred Hindu site where we were to witness the cremation of those dead whose families could afford such an elaborate ceremonial send-off!
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