We decided to rent a car for this part of the trip and Mike’s been having a blast driving manual transmission on the left side of the road. I think he likes it even better every time I cover my eyes! He just has to watch out for monkeys on the road but so far, no casualties. This place reminds us of Hawaii (and Maui in particular)…not as developed as Hawaii but perhaps what it was like 30 years ago. We’re staying in a lodge in a rainforest and it looks like we’ve had a couple of visits from an animal while we’ve been out (it’s either a monkey or this badger creature we saw in the trees)…our garbage can was overturned and a package of pea snacks scattered everywhere! Too bad we didn’t set up a security camera.
We checked out a waterfall and went for a walk in one of the geoparks and I had my first encounter with leeches...nothing serious at all but they sure are hard to get off! Just call me Leechy (Mike does).
Dinner times have been later here but since we’re on Nepalese time, we’ve been eating early and wondering why the restaurants are not busy. When we had our last dinner on the island, we had the whole place to ourselves, until it got full around 7:30pm while we were eating dessert.
Islam is the dominant religion here and so we’ve seen many women wearing hijabs(I think the majority) and some women wearing niqabs.
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| Thanks for getting the leeches off Mike! |
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| Our ride |
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| Night market |
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| His hair's getting long enough to blow in the breeze |
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| Is this our guide? |
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| We hung out here for a bit...nice and private. :) |
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| This is what you get when you make a reso...name written on a banana leaf! |
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| Wolfberries for dessert, also known as goji berries |
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Guess this is where the monkeys jump into our livingroom!
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