New Year at Shreekandapur. A chariot with a priest inside carried through streets to temples. Accompanied by drums, cymbals, flutes, dancing, orange powder showers, energetic testosterone and great hair. Gotta love this place 🙏🏽❤️🇳🇵

Himalayan French Cheese Shop roadside on Sindhuli highway, main road to India. We sampled and we bought. Delicious.

The Mister of the stupa caretaker couple once worked as a carpenter. Which explains the accuracy of the base to ensure the flag pole was straight first go, and Prem could sit safely on a very tiny wooden stool. Laso!!

ps this couple has been living in a tin sheet shanty for 8 years!!! Today there was much joy.

Many thanks once againto the local team and to @shane__marshall for design tolerance and understanding when the built structure takes on some local “adjustments”.

Back again. What a difference a few months make. Now dry and hazy and awaiting the mid year monsoon rains, then (October) lush and verdant. Namaste 🙏🏽