Catching up!  After I was told about the controversy about mortar or mortarless rebuilding, I paid close attention to the undamaged parts of the walls of the temples.  In fact I had noticed the brick pattern was similar to the temples of the Inca but with bricks, not huge boulders.   It seemed similar to the rock s carved to make the walls of their temples and houses of their Elite so you couldn't slip a piece of paper inbetween the rocks.  The closeness of the bricks in the Kathmandu temples, gives them a harmonious feel to the walls without mortar between the bricks.  There is a smoothness to these walls without mortar.  Many walls of  gardens, privacy walls were destroyed by last year's earthquakes and  whomever repaired them just stacked the bricks atop one another, no mortar and where there were not enough bricks to make the walls high enough, coiled barbed wire was coiled atop of non-mortared brick walls even if at eye level the barbed wire could tear clothing, cut a face of the pedestrians on the side walks.  Then yesterday I flew from Kathmandu to Bangkok couldn't leave the airport, had only an hour between flights, but I couldn't see the downtown, the airport must be far out from the city.  i hoped to see some of the tall buildings there.  The humidity was a factor too, very hazy.  The flights went well, except both were by Thai Airways and they served the same meal, chicken with curry.  And I was getting well enough to want to eat, but not curry. So in Singapore I got a good old burger King hamburger with mushroom and Swiss.  Good thing I'm a little nosey, because instead of a cab ride alone to the hostel I found a ground transportation desk, which offered transportation to various different parts of the city, I had a blue sticker, others were yellow and other red.  Fifteen minutes later a guy came around found we blue sticker folks, loaded us into the minibus and delivered us to our sections of the city.  And lo and behold, can you guess which person was dropped off first....me!    Plane landed at about eleven at nite, a good half hour standing in line for my hamburger, but I was starved, and the drive thru the city,  my room and bed assignment, and stowed my suitcases and backpacks under the bunk, and was in bed by one thirty.  .  Boy was that bed welcome. Best nites sleep in over a week!  Today's tour was of the harbour district, and it's icon a lion-fish spurting water thru it's mouth into the harbor.  And the buildings down there are stupendous.  Three identical maybe seventy story buildings with a concrete boat, palm trees on top of the skyscrapers.  Their orchard gardens were fabulous !  There were various religious temples...