December 13, 2009 Nepali wedding In Lumbini, Nepal Monks at tree Buddha was born under (a sapling from the original the story goes) I woke at 6am after a great rest following a long day of overland travel and a somewhat stressful situation in finding lodging after dark when all the electricity was out….again. Indian [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Neapli Wedding
Posted in 2009 Asia, Nepal on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tibetan Friends
Posted in 2009 Asia, Nepal on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tibetan friends, Pokhora, Nepal Welcome to Pokhora Boatman before sunrise Before sunrise I hired a boatman to row me across the lake so I could hike the alternate route up to the World Peace Pagoda overlooking the lake side town of Pokhora, Nepal. I arrived at the monument just after sunrise as the Himalayas came [...]
Monasteries
Posted in 2009 Asia, Nepal on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Monasteries on Annapurna Buddha eye Another advantage of a good guide is access. The Buddhist monasteries along the trek are truly spectacular but they are often locked during the time that is convent for your visit. For Angin, being a Buddhist himself, this posed no problems. He invariably started talking to someone, often an ancient [...]
Meat
Posted in 2009 Asia, Nepal on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Annapurna Circuit After some pretty marginal tea houses at the beginning of our trek we came to what looked like a really nice place and Angin had informed me that they had nice private cottages. When we arrived the place was indeed nice and we headed to the back area that did indeed contain several [...]
Annapurna Circuit
Posted in 2009 Asia, Nepal on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Annapurna Circuit Sunrise at Poon Hill Without a doubt the Annapurna circuit is the most diverse trek I completed in Nepal. Certainly the scenery on Gokyo and Everest base camp were more spectacular, certainly the jungle areas and crops of Langtang were more varied but for a single trek that captures the diversity of Nepal [...]
Road Block
Posted in 2009 Asia, Nepal on December 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
November 10, 2009, I thought Ronald Regan, Casper Weinberger, and I put an end to Communism back in the 1980s? Hell, Ron was the President, Cap was the Secretary of Defense, and I was a young Marine convinced I was saving the world from tyranny with my “service and duty”. When I started to see [...]
