Kumar, our guide for the next few days was waiting for us after we had breakfast and we were off onto the next part of our adventure. We were heading to Manakamana. Here we had to take a cable car up to visit the temple which sits 1302 metres above see level. Thankfully we did take the cable car as the walk up hill was going to take at least 3 hours! The cable car ride covers 2.8 kilometres in just over 10 minutes. There is a cargo car for taking the animals up to be sacrifice. This is called Manakamana Darshan. We visited during the quiet season and the queue was said to be relatively short. They waited for over 2 hours to get into the temple. During the busy time they can wait for up to 10 hours. While we were visiting there we were the object of curiosity and many people were taking our photos with and without permission. They also wanted us to be in their photos too.
The temple itself has been here since the 17th century. Even during this quiet day the temble and area was very busy.
A number of these guys sit outside the temple and offer the quick alternative to going into the temple.
This shows just how many white people there were there.
We went for a short walk along the track past a local school and I was fascinated by the lady putting her hens under the basket.
Fromhere Kumar sowed us where we should have been trekking to get to Gorka. Up the middle of the photo to the hilltop!
We had lunch on top of a restaurant which gave us great views.
While waiting for our car to take us to Gorkha I was able to snap this view of the cable car.
We stayed here - Crown Resort - it was a bit like a Fawlty Towers type hotel, The rooms were clean, and the food was yummy. We ate most of our meals here and were treated to a glass of raksi each night from the manager. He was very helpful and couldn't do enough to ensure that we were well looked after. We ate our meals up on the closed in restaurant where not all windows had glass.
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