We Left Kathmandu… What We Found in Nagarkot 🤯

We Left Kathmandu… What We Found in Nagarkot 🤯

We’ll head off to Nagarkot shortly. So, are 
you sad to leave Kathmandu? You almost do feel like you’re literally on a movie set, 
but nope. It’s all real. Drink tea. Okay, we have a best tea. Oh, I Yeah. Drink now. Oh, 
yeah. Cheers. Wow. Hospitality is like nowhere I think I have ever experienced. Nice. 
And that time you will see the mountain   clearly. Okay. Oh my goodness. I’m getting 
other than the chili spicy. So it’s called khukri is that nice knife. Scary one. 
Namaste. Just like that we are off and uh hitting the streets as promised. I think we 
have in mind our spot that we will be headed to um for breakfast. And uh unlike yesterday 
where we had a very heavy breakfast I think today we’re going to do the 
opposite actually. We’re going to opt   for a little lighter breakfast. Yeah. Um 
try to go easy on our stomachs because we also have no momo. No momos I don’t think 
today but maybe later. We have in mind um probably we’ll do a a bigger lunch or 
dinner. And uh I think we may be going for a swim. So hence a nice light breakfast here. 
But we’re going to be heading there now. And wow. Namaste. How are you? Good. Really good. 
Like the hot dog, chicken buns, veggie wrap, chocolate croissant. Do you see something that 
you are interested in? So, we had the double espresso, although I think I might have actually 
inadvertently uh ordered a single espresso. And he had a uh Americano. And we had the chocolate chip 
banana muffin. No, I think it was really tasty. And how much did it come to? Uh 550 550 rupees 
which I don’t know what is that not very much. $4. So um I don’t know. Good deal. Bad deal. I’ll 
say good deal. I don’t know. We don’t have enough comparison yet, I guess. Comment below if that 
is a good deal for what we got. I know that I felt like the Momo yesterday, I feel like the 
Momos from Four Square were probably the best   deal in town. That felt ridiculously affordable. 
Amazing value for all the food we got. The food, the drink. That was uh really nice. So, um, yeah, 
I just I can’t get over it compared to pricing back home. Um, I’ll take it. And again, also 
with so much character and so much flavor. Yeah, it’s well worth it. Look at this very cool 
shirt. I really like that beautiful tea shop. Yeah. Nice to meet you. Where you from? Thailand, 
Canada. Canada. Canada. Nice to meet you. Oh, great to meet you, sir. Yes. Drink tea. Okay. 
We have a best tea. Oh, I drink now. Oh, yeah. The best one in town. Okay. I do the best 
one in. Okay. Because uh Nepali tea always good, you know. Morning. I do one, two, three sometime 
in the drink. Really good. It’s really good. Yes. How long have you been uh in business? My 16 
years. 16 years doing tea. Wow. Wow. Before small in the there little bit like a 200 kil 
no 200 m from here. Yeah. And now I make a new shop like a two one year this. Wow. 15 years 
in another spot. Just this masala tea that is really fragrant tea coming. Oh wow. How 
nice. Oh my goodness. Wow. That is beautiful. We can enjoy here. It’s okay. It’s okay. Why not? 
Good. Oh, nice. Wow, look at that. Are you from uh are you from Nepal? From Kathmandu or uh 50 
km from 45. Oh, that’s nice. Next to Bhaktapur and Bakur. Yeah. Bhaktapur. Oh, thank you. Thank 
you. He likes it. But sometimes milk him and milk are not very good friends. Store. What’s the 
name of your store? Pure Nepali. Pure pure. Pure Nepali. I And what is your name? Krishna. 
Krishna. Krishna. Yes. Wow. Beautiful name. Yes. Oh, good. Pure Nepali. Wow. And it’s 
very tasty. Yeah. Very tasty. Very tasty. Do you have it every day? Every 
day. Yeah. Four. Not one. Okay. Three,   four, five. Six, seven. Is your family here 
as well? Yes, you have family. Family. Oh, good. Three daughters and me wife. A lovely. 
Are you living Thailand or where? We will be soon. Soon we will be. Yeah. Right now we’re in 
Portland, Oregon. Portland. Uh we’re in Portland, Oregon. It’s like a west coast, USA. US. And 
he’s from Thailand. From Thailand. Original Thailand. But you live on. Wait. We have been now 
together 10 years. 10 years. Long time. Yeah. And it’s wonderful. I am very lucky. Lucky to meet 
you. I’m really lucky. He is. He is really lucky. He is a bit like Nepali also. You see everything. 
Yeah. I I look like Nepali. Nepali really is 90% Nepali look like. You go only telling the people 
Nepali. Yeah. I want to get him the topi. So yeah, he can really then you can really be local 
person. Namaste. Namaste. Namaste. Yeah. Take care. Have a wonderful day. So see you. Okay. 
Yes. Take care. Okay. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. So long. So we have now here also the Himalayan salt and 
we have a lot of tea that will not fit in our bag. So we might have to leave that with the hotel um 
and then buy more luggage, maybe a little bit. But um the tea was very nice. It was really good. That 
was exactly what I was hoping for. But I learned today too. Um I didn’t know that. I thought that 
masala tea did have uh caffeine and I guess I learned that it doesn’t. So that’s surprising. 
I thought it was a black tea which I assume does have caffeine but I guess no. So we’ll try it 
out our tea and um yeah hopefully I can make it as well as Krishna because he made it perfect. So, 
um, even I wonder my milk might be different than whatever milk they are using here, maybe that adds 
extra to the taste and also the ambiance, right? Every time when you have something and you’re 
in this atmosphere, it’s tastes much better. So, maybe I will have to hire a few motorbikes to 
rip around so I can enjoy my tea with the same experience. So, oh, that’s our friend There 
we saw our friend who drove us on the uh the rickshaw on day one. Um we’ll link that video to 
the whole series. Um so you can see the sights and sounds of Nepal. So just like that we are now 
back at Hotel Moonlight here approaching and um I think we are going to do a quick quick rest stop. 
Namaste. Um we are going to do a quick rest stop and then um grab our luggage and away we go 
in the shuttle. So namaste. So we’ll head off to Nagarkot shortly. So sad to leave 
Kathmandu but excited to explore more of Nepal. Wonderful. So my name is Ray. This is 
my name and I will also be the tour manager of our tour. So you cannot get rid of me today. 
I’ll be there all all the way till the end. Oh good. Wonderful. Our drive to Nagarkot is going 
to be around an hour and a half depending on   the traffic. Oh good. You saw the traffic. 
Yeah. We are just glad to not be driving. Got everything. Cell phone. Dhanyabad. Namaste. Oh, this is cool. Wow. 
All right. That’s really neat. Wow. That’s beautiful. Part of the world. No. Okay. Uh 
you give something with your right hand. Ah. Yeah. Yeah. and not the left hand. Oh yeah, 
that’s right. Yeah. And this is similar. Yeah, it is. Something like this, I think. 
Yeah. Did you do it correctly? Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, 
now I can’t remember. Normally we try to do two, but I have so many items in my hand. So if 
you do with one hand is respect. If your left hand supports the right hand is like super 
respect. Respect multiple max. Double max. Wow. Open sunset time. Same wing rooftop. You are in uh 
second floor and then the rooftop there is the sun downer. The bonfire gathering all the guest are 
there having complimentary tea coffee there and you can see sunset one side and then mountain 
view. Wow. Okay. Wow. You’re funny. Wow. It is sunny now. Yeah. There’s three of them. Did you 
see that? Three cats. Three cats. Wi-Fi username and password in this one. Wow. It’s for the air 
conditioning. You just make it on. It is in the heating mode because it’s cold here in the 
evening time. And when the weather is clear, you see you will see the very nice all cloud 
is mountain area. It’s like if not cloud, you’ll see all the mountain. Now it’s sunrise 
from this direction. Oh my goodness. Just wake up, be here, enjoy the sunrise. Sunrise and that time 
you will see the mountains clearly. Okay. Oh my goodness. Is cloudy every day like this. Everest 
is Everest in the weather is very clear in this direction. The rooftop we see the just little bit. 
Okay. So, you’re right. I said to him, I was like, “No, I think this is Everest.” Looks like Everest, 
but this is not that’s China on side. Uh yeah, some mountains is in China side. The most 
of them are in Nepal. Okay. Wow. So you have the best office. You have the best. Yes. It’s 
wonderful. If you need any assistance in the room, dial number nine. That’s the reception. Okay. And 
see you in the sunset in the top 550. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Namaste. Thank you. Namaste. 
Namaste. ourselves. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. Oh my goodness. So immediately just 
blown away. The hospitality is like nowhere I think I have ever experienced. Um everyone 
is so kind. As you just saw, we met the hotel manager. Um we met our guide manager. Um we 
have this stunning view. Um, so I definitely know where we’re going to be for sunrise. And 
I can’t wait for the it to be even more clear. [Music] The time currently is 2:00 p.m. So, I think maybe 
we have a few things that we can try to do. Um, one, I think maybe grab a bite to eat. 
Two, there is a wonderful pool on site, so we could go there. And three, maybe try to 
do a hike. Uh, four, there’s a welcome drink and reception. It sounded like what a bonfire. 
And um and yeah, sunset. So, oh my goodness, I thought today was going to be a free day with 
uh you know, kind of a leisurely um itinerary, but wow. No. Yeah, we we have quite a lot 
of things we can do. So, um I just can’t even get over the room is stunning. You can 
see here the beautiful artwork. I love these. Uh it looks like kind of like artistic plates. 
Um if I move this way, it looks like there is some complimentary water, coffee, tea. There’s a 
safe. Do you want to show me how does this look inside? We have a nice slippers big closet. So, 
yeah, we have some sandals to enjoy. And then, um, right over this way, we enter now the 
bathroom. And pretty cool, actually. The shower looks like you do have um, you can go right in. 
It’s one, it’s really big. Uh, and there’s this window, so you get some natural sunlight while 
you’re there with uh, all these nice amenities provided. So, wow. It’s hard not to feel like 
a princess. I really do. Nice. Excellent work. I kind of wouldn’t mind going 
to see the pool. Do you want   to just go check it out first? Okay. 
Check out that. Oh, yeah. Right here. Okay. Oh, I like all these artworks and the 
music is really nice. Very soothing. I like even this little seating 
area. See the bar? [Applause] Wow. [Music] It’s very nice. I really like it. 
And there’s changing rooms. Again, probably. Huh. Probably on a clear day, you can 
probably uh have a view even from the pool and some shopping here. Look at this cool one. 
Isn’t that neat? Stylistically amazing. Wow. Namaste. Wow. So colorful. It’s 
really nice. Wow. Oh, look here, baby. This is what they were talking about. 
The different peaks. So, you can really see is like back there. Back there. But this 
is This looks high because I guess it’s Is   this the one? He said it’s like a in China. 
Yeah. Oh, wow. I think so. And with even we should have this by the door. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 
Yeah. All righty. Way you go. Thank you, sir. All right. This is chilling. Promoters, architect,   interior design. Wow. All right. So, 
let’s see. We’ll try to not get too lost, but if we do, it looks like there’s beauty 
in every direction, including look at these   stunning red flowers. Yeah. Wow. Really 
nice. You are good. Yeah. Okay. Namaste. Oh, you can rent a bike. A there’s a sleeping doggy. Okay. So, there’s a couple of restaurants 
here. And I think is it this one is our or is it a different one you had in mind? 
This is it. This is the one set. Okay. Wonderful. Today’s special. They have the 
Nepali uh thali set daily special. Um, they have rice, they have mutton, home 
fries or fish and chips. Sounds good. Okay, the smell of this is incredible. It smells 
really good. Um, I don’t know why, but lately, remember I was telling you this, I’ve really been 
craving green peppers. And actually on the plate,   there are so many really nice, lovely grilled 
green peppers. And so, right away, like that’s the first smell that I’m getting other than the 
chili, spicy. So, maybe we’ll be messed up for the hike tomorrow. Um, what we have here. So, we have 
tried so far the momo uh steamed. We have had uh jhol momo, which we have coming here in a second. 
We’ve had a soup dumpling style momo. We’ve had uh fried. And so, we figured why not? We’ll try the 
next kind. And this is the chili momo. Uh inside is buffalo meat. Mm. And next also come in a 
steamed chicken momo. So this kind of remind me of like um like a Chinese stir fry, right? It’s good. 
It’s really spicy, but it has a lot of flavor, but there’s sauce here and it reminds me of more of 
like kind of like spicy barbecue. Mhm. Right. Mhm. No, you’re absolutely right. 
It’s interesting the Oh,   yeah. Wow. Wonderful. Thank you. 
Wow. Thank you. Wow. Yummy. Mm. Uh, no. Like just uh do you not a bite? 
No. Okay. Just Oh, yeah. Good. Namaste. Okay. I want to ask you cuz I’ll get your 
reaction. You tried three different ones. Sweet. I don’t know what this is. 
I’m just sucking on it, I guess. So,   this one is a It’s like a licorice flavor. That 
one? This one? No, this one is licorice flavor. Okay. It’s freshen your breath. Mhm. This 
one I’m going to try. Sugar. That’s sugar. Yeah. Sweet. I think that’s sugar. Yeah. 
I think that’s rock sugar. Yeah. What’s the other one? The intense one. Suck on it. 
What? Hm I don’t know what this is. They said so. There was three items. One is uh one is rock 
sugar. I think the second might be like star anise, but I could be wrong. Like licorice. That 
one tastes like licorice. I’ve had that one before   and I love it. I like that one. licorice. But this 
one, oh, I lost it. It’s gone. It’s gone for me. Um, that was not very flattering of me. I don’t 
know what that third item is. What did he say? Nepali. So, Nepali something. The rock sugar and 
the star are very good. Those two are wonderful together. Anyway, that was a sunset. I believe the 
restaurant starts with sunset coffee and we have organic coffee. Wow, it’s really nice. Namaste and 
Oh, another doggy. Oh, here’s another new friend. Hello. Um, namaste. Namaste. Um, it was really 
delicious. We uh I think we both have decided though that our very favorite is the Jhol steamed 
dumpling. Just something about this soupy sauce is so tasty. But wow, I will say um it doesn’t seem 
to matter where we go. Like service is on 100. The service is so good. Everyone’s so kind and 
just such wonderful hosts. So we are going to go now into town. Um I think if nothing more, we are 
going to try to get uh water to fill our backpacks for the hike tomorrow. So um we’ll try to get uh 
yeah, we’ll try to get lots of water to drink and stay hydrated, especially cuz we indulged in the 
local Ghorka. So we’ll see what time it’s like. [Applause] nice pharmacy. Nothing. I think so. And they have 
Kit Kat and many potato chips and Chicken crackers. Oh, chicken. Come on. 
Chicken crackers and something with chili. It’s like a chicken cracker and 
a chili chip or something. And   it looks like they do recycle here. 
You can put plastic inside here. And everyone sells lots of different kinds 
of potato chips, but it might not be   potato. Spicy. It looks good. Hot and spicy. 
People adventuring. Many motorcycles. Yeah, motorcycle. Maybe we might be part of 
a photo shoot at the moment. But hey, yeah, on a clear day, this would 
be really magnificent, I’m sure. [Laughter] [Music] So, we are going now to the store. The town is not 
so big. It’s not so big. Just a little one. Hi. A really friendly uh local people. Wonderful. 
Very beautiful. Um yeah, we’re going to go get the water. It doesn’t take so long to walk, but 
there it’s nice and there’s lots of viewpoints, so I can see why it’s so charming and 
everyone would want to come to visit. Namaste. Maybe. Uh Oh, yeah. Oh, in behind you. Sorry. 
You’re okay. There’s a oyster sauce I used in Thailand. Ooh, these are the good. So, you can 
get a a tea like that. I wonder how much this one. Do you see this item down here? That is what 
I really want to get. The masala tea. Oh, there we go. You could buy straight out of noodles. 
Noodles. You can get it. Yeah. Biscuits, crackers, frozen beer. Do you want one for the hotel? Yeah, 
of course. Uh, should I grab it? Okay. Okay. Ooh, some of these looks good. This is good. That’s 
what he had. Lemon mint sticks. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s grab one. Wow. Your hair is uh is natural. 
Ah, so uh no like um my eyebrow. Oh, it’s like a dark dark color here. I dyed the It’s fun. Yeah. 
Yeah. It’s uh it’s good. I tried to match uh the Nepali flag. Oh, okay. I want to be part of Nepal. 
Yeah. Red and blue. Yeah, that’s right. We have blue on uh on our YouTube channel. Yeah. Yeah. 
Yeah. I like to do like a blue, green, purple, pink, red. It’s really fun. Your hobby. Yeah, it’s 
true. This looks good. Yeah, let’s grab it. Lemon mint. This sure. Did you see this, too? Look. I 
think you would like this item. What is it? Spicy coated fried peanut. No, I’m good. No. But good 
with beer. More on this item. potato, punjabi, bean, and chickpeas. Ooh, I found this all. This 
looks amazing. You can have uh chickpeas. This one you get all in one everything. Look, I’m try 
this too. This? Okay. All in one bag. Look at this one now. Oh, it’s the uh See, let me see. 
Hot and spicy. Okay. Both lemony masala magic lemon mint cheese spa. I think we should get a 
beer. Yeah, just that. Right. [Applause] Which one do you want? Which one? I don’t know. Do 
you want to try the chocolate? Thank you. Kit   Kat is really popular. Have a break. Cat 
Kit Kat Oreo. Ooh. Oh, you need to help. You got it. Ghorka. Yeah, Ghorka is good. 
Do you know the meaning of Gurkha? Uh, the soldiers warriors. Yeah. Yeah. Like a really 
fierce really strong. Where are you from? Uh, Canada. Canada. In um Thailand. Thailand. We 
live in US. Yeah. Yeah. Married 10 years. Ka Nepali ka. They both in India, in UK and 
USA. Yeah. Yeah. me also. Oh my gosh, they have it. Yeah, I like uh I like the hat 
and hat and the khukri. It’s called khukri, you know. Is that knife knife? Scary 
one. Can I get this one too? It’s okay. I keep saying Oreo. Can we 
get some water as well? Just perfect. That’s good. And this one. Let’s 
see. Which one? What do you want? How many do you want? Maybe. Yeah, that’s fine. Do you 
need like a How many? Three. Three. Maybe one more. One more. Yeah. For hiking. Okay. 
Two. Which way you are going to hike? Uh, no. I Where are we? Where are we? Tomorrow. 
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Yeah. Dul maybe. Yeah,   I think so. Like we got to go down 
and then up or something like that. So, I’m not ready at all. No. Uh, are these 
bigger? They’re the same, right? Okay. One liter. This one is good one. Okay. Can we get 
maybe one more? Let’s do four. Yeah. Four. Okay.   Okay. What’s your favorite snack? What do you For 
me, you know, I don’t mind. Any snack. Any snack. A famous Momo. We met a Momo. We didn’t like This 
one is actually famous. Yeah. I’ve never seen it before. Wow. Actually, uh this company they 
made it just new. Wow. New? Oh, wow. It looks It looks interesting. Yeah. But people are think you 
know it’s 2 p.m. means uh we can eat only 2 p.m. Yeah, I will I will try it at 
2 a.m. as well. 2 a.m. Yeah. He says 1,300 total. Thank you. Beer is the 
most expensive. Yeah, the beer. Yeah. Yeah. Can you even bear with charging uh uh MRP? Ah 
yeah yeah not not extra. Thank you sir. We’ll see you tomorrow maybe. We’ll be back. Yeah. 
Take care. Always you too. Namaste. Namaste. I got it. Maybe a little bit 
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