Nagarkot

To thank us for traveling to Nepal Andrew and Subechya have chartered a bus two days later to take us up to the mountain resort of Nagarkot where we'll stay overnight. At 6,722 feet our hotel balcony offers us a panoramic view of the Himalayas, from Dhaulagiri in the west to Mt. Everest and Kanchenjunga in the east. We rise at 5:30 the next morning to catch the sunrise over the Himalayas. Later, riding down the winding one-lane road back to Kathmandu, our bus slows several times to squeeze by vehicles going uphill. We hold our breaths hoping that we don't scrape together or careen off the edge of the road into a canyon. Fortunately we make it back in one piece.