Hotel Elephant Head Nagarkot

4,30 am wide awake waiting for sunrise. 5.15 or so I am outside funnily enough yet again wearing lots of clothes.
No-one else around, went to highest point near the hotel and stood and watched.

It was like a dimmer switch was being used. The first rays of light and then you could see it getting lighter and lighter every minute. The light spread accross the sky.. WOW

Looked to ...

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... if I was tired. Well, yeah, kind of, since we just spent 20 minutes hopping about and i'm wearing a long sleeve shirt as not to offend you with my tank top. A fun experience, but I'm not sure if I'll be returning to Kundalini aerobics.

I will continue getting lost around Kathmandu for the next day or two, drinking tea, and trying to figure out my trek. Enjoy these few pictures and I'll let everyone know once I'm on my way to the Annapurna Circuit. XOXO.

... driving through the beautiful Nepalese countryside to Kodari on the Nepal Tibet border. After completing the border formalities at both the Nepalese and Chinese immigration posts we check in to our hotel in Zhangmu on the Tibetan side of the border.
30 March 2010 Day 07 Drive from Zhangmu to Naylam
Today we continue along the friendship highway early in the morning, driving through from Zhangmu to Nyalam.
31 March 2010 Day 08 Rest days at Naylam for ...

... that is sure to mean it won't rain again!
I feel a little more awake today so perhaps I am also adjusting to the time difference and temperature now as I slept a little better last night. I hope that means I will cope better with my language lesson today! I am now beginning to find that I can understand some of what is being said to me, but I cannot form my responses with any confidence yet. However, Nabin is very patient and he seems to ...

... Nevertheless I did about 3 hours of work in the morning, went to immigration and went home where I will spend the rest of my day writing, reading and maybe napping.

Later
I passed out for a few hours too long and woke up with some crazy creative energy so I finished writing Meera's children's center pamphlet and also wrote about 5 pages of content for our website. I'm so excited to get it all up and going but it will take some time of course.

... a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses -- that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things." - Pablo Neruda, as quoted in 'The Gift' by Lewis Hyde Some recent thoughts and observations about Kathmandu: The food ...

... was served. While I admire the intent to prioritise the foreigners, I would have preferred people be served in order of arrival. I discovered that the Nepalese tend to have much the same lunch and dinner. A stack of rice with bowls of lentil soup and spices which gets poured over the rice. They then mix the rice and topping with their right hand (left hand is for toilet duties) and scoop the food into their mouth. They ...

... valley to the west and Indrawati river valley to the east. (got all this info from a brochure of course although we could see all these mountains..hee hee) Most of the people go up to Nagarkot in the afternoon,stay in a hotel in Nagarkot and then,get up at dawn to watch the early morning sunrise over the peaks .Once the sun begins to rise from behind the Himalayas,it looks spectacular as snow-covered mountain changes its colour in shades of ...

... in the early 1700's, and before that Nepal, like much of India was a collection of Kingdoms each with claims and rights to specified land. Boundaries were contested and it was not until the early 18th century that a powerful King, though not the king of the Kathmandu kingdom pressed his rights and unified the country relatively peacefully. The immediate Kathmandu area includes the area which was home to at least 3 different such Kingdoms ...