41) Kathmandu - testimony of Nepal's cultural wealth: Photos 21 to 42

We left Pokhara in the morning, all buses to Kathmandu leave from the same place at 7:30 a.m., very practical. We had the choice of different companies and chose any bus, rather convinced that they were all the same. The bus was better than most we had experienced in India, but this time we had opted for a so-called 2x2 (only two seats per row on each side of the aisle) tourist bus. The drive from Pokhara to Kathmandu took only five hours, but it was the most scenic we have had in almost four months! First of all, Nepal is a very green country, soothing to your eyes, then we followed the course of a river all the way to Kathmandu. Actually, we were on one of Nepal's highways, the road was either in excellent state or being repaired, and the villages we drove through appeared rather rich. From what we had seen of Nepal so far, it is hard to imagine that it is among the ten poorest countries in the world. We had quite many breath-taking views down the wild river gushing over huge boulders or flowing quietly and broadly in an unperturbed riverbed lined by sandy beaches

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