A final shot of Nepal....prayer wheels along a temple, worn shiny at the bottom from many years of spinning. For the right Nepal chronology, maybe you should start lower in the post......maybe next time I will get the order posting right.  

I love this one. Dualing photos! I bet hers isn't blurry......but then by this time I have noticed that my beer glass keeps getting miraculously refilled. I had a wonderful meal and evening sharing with the Begale family....many thanks to them for opening their home and sharing Dasain with me! 

...and here she is a practicing model!! 

Here she is hamming it up for the camera.... 

Later after returning from my trek, my guide and new friend Bhim, invited me to his home for a Dasain festival meal and to meet his family. His daughter is 4 and son is 9 months old. His daughter is quite a ham, and is already bi-lingual. She calls me "her tourist".  

This Lady Lama gave me a lovely blessing at Bodhnath. She has green eyes! 

This Lama is making a circum-prostration around the temple. He has hand and knee cushions, and when he stands, he claps his hands together over his head, in front of his face, and in front of his chest before taking two steps forward, prostrating himself on the ground, and repeating the process. This is the equivalent to a 3 in 1 ambulation...one time on the ground and three on foot when done in this manner.  

In this shot at Bodhnath, a Lama is giving a passerby a blessing. 

Another shot of Bodhnath. 

The whole Bodhnath stupa. 

The stupa is stained with a vegetable / water mixture splashed up along its curves in large, sweeping circular motions. In this image, the breeze is just lightly blowing some of the decorrative hanging cloth above the eyes, giving it a raised eyebrow effect. "you talkin' to me?...." 

This Buddhist stupa, Bodhnath, is the largest in Nepal and one of the world's largest. It serves as the center for the Tibetan refugees in Nepal, allowing a peek into Tibet's vibrant culture, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  

After returning to Kathmandu, I spent the morning after the Everest flights revisiting just one temple, my very favorite in the world, Bodhnath.

Everest at the far left, and Tibet just behind it. 

Finally, here is Mount Everest...the pyramid topped wonder.