On Top of the World!

Yesterday, we met the rest of the group. Really nice people. We took a tour of several parts of the city.

We started at the Monkey Temple. We had to climb up some 100+ steps to get to the top. The view of the valley was spectacular. A lot of people were up here meditating and praying along with the monkeys!

We then went into the heart of the city Kathmandu. We went to several palaces and temples. We even got a glimpse of the Living Goddess. She was just selected as the Living Goddess last month and is only 4 years old. She was quite shy. I won't go into the gory details of how the Goddess gets selected but it is quite gross.

We then went on to a third part of the city where the original palaces were and some more temples.

This morning we got up early for a sunrise flight along the Himalayan ridge culminating in a turn around at Mt. Everest. It was a beautiful, clear blue sky morning and I hope our pictures turn out. One by one we were allowed to go to the cockpit to take more pictures. My pictures will consist of the wing, engine and propeller!!

Karel was at the back of the plane and has some awesome pictures.

We are now on our way to Bhutan. I'm not sure how often we will be able to update this blog. Otherwise we will update it when we return to Nepal in 10 days.

Namaste!
Deb & Karel