July 25th

Hey, this morning I got woken up at about 5am because our guest house is right next to a temple, and in the evening and I found out this morning they have a service everyday, with a loud speaker and bells ringing just what you want at that time anyway eventually after I got back to sleep I was woken up again from the other side of the street by a fruit and veg Market type thing, all I could hear was people bartering, even with ear plugs in anyway I got to sleep again and bree came and knocked for me about 9.30 and we went up to the roof top for breakfast, then came back to our rooms and showered and got ready then we went and walked around the town, we set off to do this 2hour walk which is in the lonely planet book, but this pair I’m with are useless with directions (only joking guys) but yeah we were going to be able to do it as, we don’t know our way around, and it’s easy to get lost so we just walked about and seem some more temples, then it started to spit so we decided to find this coffee shop which is in the lonely planet and is meant to be really good, we’ve been looking for it since we got here but never could find it, anyway we eventually found it and had a coffee, which was good and different seen as it’s all tea in Nepal! The after that we decided to walk towards the river and see what we could see, we came across some really pretty sights, and then we saw some young monks, so went to get a picture and got talking to them and they showed us around there place where they are trained to become proper monks, and then took us up to there temple, which is really nice to see, they told us once they had finished there first bit of training here to become monks, they’d go to thailand and become proper monks. After we looked around we kept walking towards the river and seen hanuman ghat which is a ‘cremation place’ where the 3 holy rivers meet, then we walked a little more and seen some cool statues and things, then we headed back in the centre of bhaktapur to ‘taumadhi square’ where our guest house is along with the five story siddhi laxmi temple is, then from there we walked to pottery square where all sorts of things are made and we seen the pottery stove, which just looks like a load of ash with smoke coming out. After we went there we headed back to where the guest house is and I had a look around the stalls then went back to my room before we met for dinner, where we went to a near by restaurant and then we came back to our rooms.
Heading back tomorrow at about lunch time properly, then spending the rest of my time at the orphanage, hopefully while the kids are at school going to see a few things including the big budda which is on the side of a hill. Then back to thamel on Sunday and fly home on the Monday.
How time flies!
See you all soon
Lots of love xxxx