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Alison in rooftop restaurant in Durbar Square

Alison washing clothes - had to be seen to be believed!!

View from the roof of the Volunteer House

Kathmandu city from Swayambunath temple

Yesterday morning was spent trying to learn some Nepali phrases (badly), and then we went down to Durbar Square which is the old part of Kathmandu, full of temples and impressive pantomime sadhus (one of them in leopard print, no less!). This morning we booked a trip to Chitwan National Park for 3 nights/4 days - we leave on Friday morning this week and come back on Monday afternoon. We'll be going on an elephant safari, a jeep safari, a canoe ride and hopefully helping to bathe the elephants in the river. It'll be hotter there than it is here, but hopefully not too many flies or mosquitos yet - apparently they get quite bad nearer May.

Anyway, we're going to keep this short because the electricity goes off in 20 minutes (although it mysteriously stayed on for hours last night after it should have gone off) and I'm going to try to upload some photos just now. We're off to play with the kids up at the big house this afternoon - they all have the day off school because it's International Women's Day.

Ann & Alison

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