Bandipur and Nagarkot: Nepal

A chance to sleep in for a change, Bandipur is only a few hours drive from Pokhara. It's a hilltop town that's managed to keep it's charming old centre since the new main road bypassed it in the 60s.

We stayed at the traditional 'Old Inn.'

It's rumoured that tour developers are trying to muscle their way in with promises of a cash influx to poor locals. They want to add a cable car which will no doubt bring in bus loads of Chinese day tourists who probably won't spend anything in town and the project will only enrich the cable car owner but chase away all the other visitors. 

The next day we spend a long time in the car on winding,traffic-clogged roads up and into the Kathmandu Valley,  punching our way through the city and up the other side to the Mystic Mountain Resort in Nagarkot. 

It's beautiful up here but pretty cold and very misty.

We'd come primarily for the view of Mount Everest at sunrise but this is all we see.