Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Himalayan Honeymoon: Sunday, January 29


Our flight was delayed out of Guangzhou by 1 hour because of air traffic control? We got 3 different opinions on what time it would be in Kathmandu when we landed. We ran out of the shuttle bus to the terminal and stopped at the “transit desk.” The dude took our passports and flight receipt and came back with them 20 minutes later. The Kathmandu airport is a dead ringer for the Sioux Falls Greyhound station. We can barely make out the mountains through the haze, but it’s lovely in every direction. The building looks like a Wes Anderson movie. Views flying into the airport were amazing.

We passed through a series of smaller and smaller locked rooms to pass from the transit desk to security. There were separate security lines for men and women. The Paro, Bhutan airport is so beautiful.

We saw a cock & balls painting on a house as we were exiting town.

Trucks are decorated very awesomely.


 There were prayer wheels at the stupa that we visited.

You are supposed to circumambulate them in a clockwise direction. The old iron suspension bridge was out of order, but we could use the newer one adjacent to it.



Identifying past/present/future Buddha depends on hand position. There are four animals on flags called the four friends.

Everything is modest but nothing is crummy, and our hotel in Thimphu is amazing.

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