Alright..... our third morning on the trial got a some great views of the Himals. Although they were short live it was well worth it.
Beautiful!
This little lodge/stop was the highest point on our circuit...I think was over 10,000 feet. We did walk through some snow to get there. But, after a quick snack we headed on down to the next village for the night.
Taking a break on the descent down....although the hikes up the hill were tough, the downhill was pretty rough on the legs, knees, and feet. This is a good view of the village we stayed in.
The suspension bridges were pretty cool, but also a little scary. I didn't look down for too long!
This was one of the nicest places we stayed. The food was great and the town was in a beautiful setting. They also had an adorable puppy that I think they would have let me take home! I could even see the straw through the floorboards and smell the cows that stayed under the room we slept in....almost like home, but we usually only smell the cows when we are outside.
Some awesome prayer flags on our way out the next morning.
One of our only signs that gave directions. We were headed to Timbu, but unfortuntely the arrows pretty much pointed in random directions. At least that's what it looked like to us!
I don't have any pictures of our last night on the trail, but it is probably better left forgotten. The people weren't so nice, and our sleep was accompanied by rats. I never saw one of the little (well, I'm hoping little. the rat we found in our attic could have eaten a cat) buggers, but I definitely listened to them all night. Needless to say, we were out of there more than early the next morning, but this was the view from the next little village were we stopped for breakfast.
A cool looking part of the trail on our last day going down.
Most people use water buffalo here for farm work and we saw a lot of peole plowing fields on our last couple of days. It is all done by hand. So the man is using his weight to push a wooden or metal rod down into the mud (the fields are flooded first) behind the buffalo.
Well, that's all for the trek! We are heading out tomorrow for a reatreat in Lumbini - famous as the birthplace of Buddha. It is supposed to be hot and full of mosquitos this time of year but we are still looking forward to the rest and days off from school. We just finished our Term 1 exams and Pat and I both spent the last few nights correcting well over 300 tests!
Happy 4th of July!!!!
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