I can't remember when I saw my first picture of Bouddhanath but I had wanted to visit ever since.  Our trip to Bhutan gave me the perfect opportunity to  visit Kathmandu.  

For lovers of trivia:  Bouddhanath is also known as Khasti, or dew drops, as builders are said to have used dew to mix the mortar because of a  severe drought during construction.

Next day Barbara and Raine made a flying visit to Varanasi and I went to Bangkok to try to get a business visa to enable me to volunteer at a school in Myanmar.