It rained again today but it appears the clouds have moved on -- at least for the evening. Our flight is still scheduled to leave tomorrow morning for Lukla. Today we spent half the day wandering the city streets (which I'm looking forward to doing more of when we come back to Kathmandu after the trek) and hiked up to the Monkey Temple -- a Buddhist/Hindu temple guarded by troops of monkeys. Apparently the Nepalis' religion is a mix of Hindu and Buddhism which I don't quite understand yet -- that is going to be the topic of study on our trek. The temple was brilliant. Mostly because I like monkeys. And because the temple sat on top of a small mountain and had great views of Kathmandu. And because the Nepali folks, wearing a rainbow of colored costumes and a splattering of red yogurt on their foreheads to cover up their "Third Eye," were there in hordes worshipping.
The other half of the day we spent chatting with an Irish dude who lives in Goa, India. Interesting chap. He had great info on SE Asia -- one bit of information he passed along is that Burma is apparently having an election in the next month, and as expected, it will be rigged and there could be some volatility. So we may not go there now. If anyone picks up on any info in the papers or on the internet about the situation there please shoot us a comment on the blog.
There may or may not be internet along the trek. (By the way, we're doing a teahouse trek so we will be staying in villages all along the way.) If there is no internet, there will likely be a 15-17 day period of silence. Hope everyone is well. Talk soon.
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