Our most likely new house

House hunting in a new country, always a joy... 

We took four days to run around Kathmandu and Lalitpur (on the other side of the river) to visit houses. As both Thomas and me will probably be working a lot from home, we opted to have something a bit bigger than an appartment and looked for a house, preferably with a garden. Not an easy undertaking in a city as densily populated as KTM, but through different realtors, we visited about fifteen houses and made a shortlist of three. It became a bit tricky as Thomas really like one, and me another. Hence, today, we met with the owners and rated the houses, and we are proud to present (if everything goes well) our new little haven in KTM (actually Lalitpur). 

It is a thirteen year old building/offices, here, right by Patan Dhoka, a part of town which houses several UN offices and is a bit more classy. The house is/was occupied by an NGO, which means at least the infrastructure and cables for internet and invertors is there. 

It has a well for when there is no water (a very important issue here), four bed rooms (for our friends and family), an office room  and even a garage and servant quarters out back (which we'll probably convert to a meeting room or something). 

Bathroom

 It is right by a campus, which is very green and will hopefully give some fresh air, highly needed in KTM.

2min walk, view on the campus

Terasse on top of the house, with solar panels

The veggie garden behind

The lawn in front, to lounge

             

The kitchen

                 

Currently their meeting room, soon to be our bedroom

Tomorrow we'll have to discuss with the owners and also go through the contract so hopefully everything will work out. We agreed on a price of 60 000 Nepali Rupees or 490€ per month, to which we'll have to add 10% taxes and utilities (water and electricity). Next week, the NGO that is currently occupying the house will be moving out and then we might have to wait antoher ten days for the house to be repainted and cleaned. 

We'll keep you posted!