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.