This city has faced water shortages supplying its hitis, communal water fountains that are often decorated with carvings of snake heads. In this city, an artificial water tank with a name meaning “Queen’s Pond” is opened once a year during the end of the Tihar festival. (10[1]-5[1])This city, which forms a metro area with smaller cities like Bhaktapur and Lalitpur, (10[1])houses ancient temples (10[1])in its Durbar Square. (10[1]-5[1])A valley named for (-5[1])this city is home to the Newar ethnic group. (10[1]-5[1])After receiving (-5[1])heavy (10[2])pollution (-5[1])in that (10[1])valley named for this city, the Bagmati River flows south through steep (10[1])gorges of the Himachal Rconange into the state of Bihar. (10[1])Daily domestic (-5[1])flights (10[1]-5[1])connect (-5[1])this city (10[1]-5[1])to (10[1])the dangerous (10[1])Tenzing-Hillary (10[3])Airport. (10[10]-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[3]-5[2])tourists (10[4])travelling (10[1])to the southern (10[2]-5[1])base camp of Everest (10[3])will usually fly (10[2])into what (10[3]-5[1])capital (-5[1])city? (10[3])■END■ (10[19]0[2])