Crap! I thought I published this in November 2016. Oh well, lots of fun we had here. Flew into Chiang Mai, picked up at the airport and taken out about hour outside of the city to a jungle village where the tree house resort was located. Before arriving we stopped at “Sticky Falls” so named […]
We had a great time in Guangzhou. It was a highlight of our trip. Our tours took us to out of the way areas inside and outside of the city. We got to see things that we normally wouldn’t have had a chance to see: walking around parks seeing locals play games and exercise, riding around
This place is YUGE: part flea market, part road-side food stalls, part antique mall and 100% cool.
We left Chiang Mai to have island fun in Phuket and some of the other islands. We went to a private beach named Freedom Beach. Owned and operated by a family that passed the property down through the generations. We met the owner and he promised that they would never build the place up or
Our last day in Chiang Mai. We walked from our hotel to brunch. On the way back to hotel we stopped for a fish spa treatment and couple’s massage.
Here is the main reason we came to Chiang Mai – to see the elephants at Elephant Nature Park. It’s an experience I’ll remember for a long time. There were so many different day trip excursions to choose from. I finally chose the Pamper a Pachyderm experience. We walked the elephants down to the river and
Lots of temples to see the last few days in Kathmandu. Pashupatinath Temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Nepal and is dedicated to Shiva. Last rite ceremonies are performed here. Boudhanath Stupa is one of the largest stupas in the world. Swayambhu, revered by both Buddhists and Hindus is one of the oldest and
Walked back up the hill to Taksindu for the dedication ceremony of the new dormitory for the monks and the first day of Medical Camp. Most everyone from the village got dressed up and walked up to the monastery in their finest Sherpa gear. Youngdi and Lecki were especially grand in their fancy dress. Dawa,
Kat’s craft/cultural exchange project for Bridges Between this year was to teach the kids about kites. She brought kites, kite making supplies and a lot of enthusiasm on a cruddy day for kite flying in the mountains. There was no wind. The kids seemed to have had a great time running the kites from one
I taught a knitting class two nights in a row to the women in Cchulemu. I brought 88 skeins of yarn, 32 sets of knitting needles, and 15 crochet hooks to Nepal and distributed them between the two villages that we ended up teaching in. With all that, I wish we had more yarn