We came across the snake charmers who were eager to play their little tune to the vipers (?) who came weaving their way out of their grass baskets, and brought the python along to be draped around our shoulders...
Tony (Australia) and Sally (Manchester)
Nina and I. I wish you were here Rosanne.... 
Krishna's German friend Florien made it safely all the way from Belgium and somehow managed to get the bus up from Kathmandu the same day! He looked totally alive and awake bright and early the next morning and spent the 2 days he was here making endless plans with Krishna and troops of guides, porters and expedition organisers for his crazy 2 week ice climbing expedition up to 6-7,000 metres! Half of it was trying to arrange helicopter rescue insurance with an agency in Kathmandu - yet it turns out the air is so thin at the height he will be at hellicopters wouldn't be able to make it... Lets hope he will be ok!
Krishna's German friend Florien made it safely all the way from Belgium and somehow managed to get the bus up from Kathmandu the same day! He looked totally alive and awake bright and early the next morning and spent the 2 days he was here making endless plans with Krishna and troops of guides, porters and expedition organisers for his crazy 2 week ice climbing expedition up to 6-7,000 metres! Half of it was trying to arrange helicopter rescue insurance with an agency in Kathmandu - yet it turns out the air is so thin at the height he will be at hellicopters wouldn't be able to make it... Lets hope he will be ok!Krishna took us up Sarangot (hill overlooking Pokhara and Annapurna range) to see the sun rise one morning - although it was my fourth time I still enjoy walking up in the dark and seeing the incredible views slowly emerge as it gradually gets light. It was too cloudy to see much of the mountains or sunrise but an incredible red sun through the gaps and good views over the valleys and of small homesteads and people going about their daily village lives...
Waiting for sunrise - (nice height difference!)
Sunrise, joined by a little dog.
Krishna and Florien left for trekking yesterday and I was meant to leave for Palpa too to begin work with CCODER but that morning got another stomach bug... so decided to wait here until it is better and have enough energy to start somewhere new. Went to the hosp this morning and doc thinks it might be giadria - nasty parasite which comes back again and again until you sort it out so a course of antibiotics may be in order... about to return to the doc to hear the test results and we will decide from there.
It has been wet for the first time I have been here over the last couple of days and incredible thunder storm last night. The whole sky went yellow, with blinding lightening flickering every few seconds and thunder shaking the guesthouse like an earthquake as it boomed around the Himalayas and echoed across the lake. It was comforting listening to the rain drumming on the tin roof outside my room, and the smell of wet dust on the road, the clear damp air and sounds of splashes from the cars felt for the first time like home.
Looking forward to meeting up with Nina and friends again this afternoon.
Hope you're well,
Lots of love
Esther
