What can we say about Kathmandu? Crowded, chaotic, dirty, bad horrible roads (complete with wandering cows), brown water and lots of power outages. Thomas said “It is not a modern city.” It also had really nice people who live in this challenging environment every day and beautiful Buddhist and Hindu sites to visit, some complete with monkeys. Our hotel was near a lot of the madness but was a garden of calm. It was a palace for the king and queen for 70 years (until 1964), and was then transformed into a hotel when a new palace was built. It had a great pool to cool off in which was nice because it ended up being warmer than we were hoping. It rained every day (it is the rainy season there) but usually in the afternoon or evening.  We timed all our outings perfectly and never got drenched. Kathmandu ended up having our least favorite airport of all time. We’re in Bangkok, Thailand now and we’ll be heading to the beach (Phuket) in a few days for some relaxing time.