Village highland resort, Ranikot, a review

This is a part of 'project 110, going back and re-filling', writing is happening 8ish months after the date.

This is the resort we went to, jd, jbd and myself at the terminus of our Ranikot hike. Readers of this blog will remember I didn't not have a good time in the hike, for the trails were unkempt, the area was dirty, and the 'peak' was a disappointing area with rowdy loud people who trashed it. But the post-finale, so to speak, the post-orgasmic smoke break so  to speak of our hike was this resort.

It's possible because of the terrible experience in the hike my standards were lowered. It's also possible because the weather was absolutely perfect, warm and sunny when the winter had not fully ended, that my mood was high. And the village we were expecting was small and not very rich in tourist amenities, when we found ourselves in the height of Nepali tourism service industry treatment. The scenery, overlooking Bhaktapur was incredible. Our couple of hours of stay in this resort as we got three thalis of bhaat was as perfect as it could have been.

We got a thali, all of us asked for three extra servings because it was that good. The place did seem to be targeted specially towards the tiktok-oriented clientele, but that was of little bother to us: here we were on a weekday afternoon with very few people to bother us. Jd found somebody from way back whom she knew, and jbd also had a friend who came over to say hi, so it was a crazy co-incidence, but besides that it was peaceful to perfection. On the one hand, the lack of public transport to take us back to town should have bothered us, as we did walk all the way to Suryabinayak, but that also meant the tourist pressure on the place was reasonable.

Great scenery, lots of places to take pretty pictures, good food, and not outrageous prices.

Eight out of ten stars to this resort, would go again!