Patan Durbar Square...

Our next stop was the British School of Kathmandu to drop off books collected by BSN teachers for a library they started at a Nepalese school in the mountains. We had originally thought we could walk the five kilometers to the school, but soon realized that there was no easy way to walk across town. This photo is not from the school, but rather a symbol that we saw around town. The Nepali swastika, pre-dating the abhorrent Nazi version, means well being. The Nepali symbol for education is a six-sided star.

Conveniently, the school was on the way to our next stop: Patan Durbar Square, a former palace and series of Hindu temples dating back hundreds of years in the city of Lalitpur, about five kilometers from Kathmandu.

This UNESCO World Heritage Site seemed to be bustling with many more Nepalese than foreigners.

This fellow on an outside wall of the palace, didn’t look particularly welcoming.