Boudnath

I walked across the city to Lucy's house this morning and was pleased to have only taken a couple of wrong turnings.  I was welcomed as a long lost friend by her fluffy lhasa apso whose  photo is below  Perhaps I still carried the smell of Bertie on me?

I forgot to take my shoes off but hopefully will remember on the next visit to a Nepalese home

  We went to the beautiful Shechen Monastery and had lunch in the Monastery garden cafe.

  I then walked anticlockwise around the stupa whilst Lucy had a lesson. It was a peaceful place and fascinating to watch the Tibetans and other buddhists, performing their religious rituals. Lucy showed me how to a spin the prayer wheels three times.


We then met up for Masala tea with Tashi, a monk who is coming to Pokhara in November

. Hopefully I will meet up with him there. Lucy and I then returned to her house for a wonderful Nepali meal and now I am getting my bags together ready for my 6.30am wake up call for my journey to Pokhara tomorrow. Let's hope it is not raining or nearly as hairy as described by the two comedians on the BBC programme a couple of weeks ago.


I have added a few  photographs below. When I have more time I will try to improve the layout of this page

My favourite photo of the day