Worth a thousand words and all that

A few photos, finally. ;-)

This was on my second day in Kathmandu. I headed over to Boudhanath. Needless to say, beautiful place. I went there again today.

Tiffany and I went trekking in the Langtang region for about a week. This is just a little sample. I'll have more to say/write about this later--when I have access to faster internet connection, etc. It was pretty darn spectacular up there. By the way, written on this stone is Om mani padme hum, which is the mantra that shows up everywhere and on everything in the Buddhist parts of the country. Young people, old people chanting...

The day after Tiffany and I got back to Kathmandu after our trek, I visited her work for a bit and then took a microbus down to Pashupatinath, which seems to be one of the most if not the most important Hindu temple in Kathmandu if not all of Nepal. I went there again today, too. Pretty profound place. Religion, dharma, puja... whatever it is--I don't claim to understand Hinduism at all--feels very alive to me here. Very vibrant. Very few tourists at a place like Pashupati. Mostly just local folks. There are public cremations there, as well, along the banks of the holy Bagmati River.

Okay, now that I've done a proper blog post with photos and the whole bit, I feel like I can head up to Khumbu and be away for computers for a couple weeks with a clean conscious. ;-)