After breakfast at the hotel, we boarded the bus for the ride to Patan City – the city of fine art.

The Nepali workweek is Sunday to Friday. Today was Saturday and the morning traffic was very light.

These are telephone lines, not power lines. When one goes bad, they simply run a new line without trying to identify the bad one.

The tour guide took us through some side streets of Patan, into Durbar square, and through the palace.

The pit with the post is where they perform animal sacrifices. The most common animals are: water buffalo (anger), goat (lust), sheep (stupidity), duck(ignorance), and chicken (cowardice).

We stopped at a healing bowl shop for a demonstration. Then we headed for the bus to go to lunch.

After lunch we took a tour of Bhaktpur. Highlights were the Durbar square, the five story temple and a Thanka painting school.

According to our guide, 70% of the population make a living from agriculture. We drove by rice fields on the way to Bhaktpur. On our walk back to the bus after our tour we saw women winnowing grain.

By late afternoon the traffic was more like what we had been used to. Tihar (the Festival of Lights) is approaching and people were lined up to catch buses back to their home villages.