Summary

Summary:

• We did two six hour treks up to Sarangkot and back down
• We saw more snow capped mountains
  
• We rode a local bus
• We saw another strike
• We took a 15 hour taxi ride from Nepal to India
• And we saw the four special Buddha sites

It is to hot for me to think of anything else to say (44 degrees) so I am going to my air conditioned room to read and watch TV.

Signing out
Adrian :)

Yikes!!!

We have now left Chitwan and are in the last two weeks of our trip.
A long seven hour bus took us to the mountains of Pokhara where it is a lot less humid.


We all woke up at 7:00am and were on the path by 9:00. We were going to trek to the World Peace Pagoda on Phewal Mountain. We took the ''scenic path'' but you could not see very much. The only difference was that it was 2 hours long when the other path was just 20 minutes.

But half way up the mountain, when we stopped for water, I looked down at my shoe and saw a leech trying to wiggle under the tongue of my shoe! I told my parents what I saw and I quickly threw it away. They told me to take off my shoe to look for more and there were 2 more on my socks and threw them away as well.

We went back to our trekking, and now that I knew they were there, I saw they were everywhere. If you stopped walking they would climb on to you and it was really gross. So I ran the rest of the trail. Lots more got on my shoes, but I flicked them off.

I was happy to heare the path down was short and had no leeches.

Signing out
Adrian :)

Royal Chitwan National Park

After seeing so many animals in Kathmandu, we decided the animals here in Nepal are very interesting and that we wanted to see more so now we are in Sauraha Village just on the edge of Royal Chitwan National Park where there are tonnes of deadly animals like rhinos and tigers! We had to take a long and bumpy bus ride.

Day 1: When we arrived at 2pm, on Tuesday June 2nd we were very hot. We didn't really do very much for the rest of the day. We talked about treking with the other people at our hotel, we walked around the town to see what there was and we watched people bathe with the elephants. But day 2 was when it all began.

Day 2: We were going to go canoeing in the morning but the rain cancelled it so we got to sleep in. Then, beacause it was so hot and because it looked like so much fun, we (me and my mom) decided to bathe with the elephants ourselves. It was so much fun! The elephant would swing you back and forth until you fell into the water and they would spray water in your face. When we dried off, we headed out on a canoe ride. We canoed for 1 hour and then walked back through the jungle. We did not see any animal on the way there but when we were walking, we saw a deer, a crocodile, bear prints and rhino prints but no rhinos.

Day 3: We woke up early at 5:30 to catch our ride. We were going to go on a Safari-like tour through the jungle on the back on an elephant. All three of us had to fit into a small basket-like thing on the back of the elephant. Our guide told us that there was a 99% chance to see rhinos and we did, we saw 4 rinos and 10 deer!!! It was really fun but also squishy. When we got back, we wached the elephants bath and then walked around town.

Tomorow, we are going to take a bus to Pokhara for some trekking.

Signing out
Adrian :)

Monkeys, Monkeys and More Monkeys!

We have been staying in Kathmandu for three days so far and we have done tonnes of different things from riding bike down a busy road in rush hour to waching a strike to shopping for thankas. But nothing compares to what we did at The Monkey Temple.

My mom told me that there where alot of monkeys but I didn't think there were so many!!! And these are not just casual eating and sleeping ones, these were Stocky Ressus Monkeys. They can steal bags from you, bite your fingers, invade your house and if you look at them too long they jump at you. But they are also really cute.

As we entered, we saw about ten monkeys eating the garbage and attaking stray dogs and there were another dozen in the trees above. But The Monkey Temple is not just about the monkeys, you have to walk up 216 steep steps to get to all of the shrines and to the shops. But all I cared about was the monkeys.

As the day went on, we saw more monkeys but now we were getting a little hungry. As we were sitting and eating, we saw a man from the restorant go over to a crowd of monkeys and start feeding them. We decided to follow him and watch. But these monkeys were not the scarry type, these ones were the moms with babies and they were really, really cute! I got alot of good pictures but then it was time to go. I really didn't want to go but after a long day of walking, I needed to sleep. I will never forget their cute little faces!

Signing out

Adrian :)

The Flight From Hell

We left the monestery that we were staying at on Monday at 11am and were going to leave to Kolkata at 1:30 but the plane was delaid because the first plane was broken and they had to find us a new plane. Our new plane left at 4pm. 2 hours into the flight, they told us that Cyclone Aila was hitting Kolkata and we could not land.

They flew us to Chennai were we landed at 7pm. they madew us wait not in the airport but in the airplane. All we had for dinner was bad tasting peanuts, snack crakers and bottled water. After4 and a half hours, the pilot said that we were going to try to fly but we mighte not land!!!

FINALLY, we arrived in Kolkata at 1:30 am were we wandered the dark and windy sreets for an hour until we found or hotel but it was full beacause we were to late so we had to go back to the airport and sleep.

later that morning we had to wake up and fly to Kathmandu.

Signing out
Adrian :)

A Burmese Trafic Jam

What we did in Burma/Myammar

After we left Darmsala, we took a flight to Burma/Myammar into a small village around lake Inle. It was really nice and really quiet because there was only about 5 cars in the whole village, everyone else walked or biked. while we were there, we:

• took a boat tour arond the whole lake
• ate at every restaurant at least once
• visited alot of stupas
• took a two day trek up and down a mountain
• stayed over night in a villigers house
• i learnt how to eat hot chili's
• went into a big deep meditatin cave
• took a motorcycle ride around town for half a day
• and went horse back riding up and down a small mountain

It all was really fun!!!

Signing out

Adrian:)