Nagarkot

Took an old toyota up the side of one of the mountains that surround the Kathmandu valley, up into the cloud cover. The journey up the mountain is a bit perilous, a single lane, very twisty road with no guard rails that winds up the side of the mountain. Big Tata trucks and motorcycles screaming down while you are going up, several close calls that were always avoided by veering the Toyota off the non cliff side of the road. The road goes through several villages, a make shift unofficial tollbooth where they stop you and demand 20 rupees, and higher up through families of mountain goats with adorable mountain goat babies (billies? whatever) wandering around and making funny goat noises. At the top of the Nagarkot mountain (about 3,500 meters above sea level, so a comparatively small mountain for here) are a couple secluded resorts with views of the whole Himalayan mountain range. Water is brought up to them on trucks. Its tiger country, but our guide said don't worry, tigers are loud and make a "huff, huff, huff" sound so you don't get surprised. So we asked, "what do you do if you hear a tiger" and his response was "well, tigers can go anywhere, so, nothing really". Hmmm...