Brief Updates from Pokhara

I tried to get the next blog post up (Angkor Wat + Bangkok) in the last couple of days, but sadly Nepal's chaos and the chaos of preparing for the Annapurna circuit has foiled my plans. A quick

update-- for the next two weeks I will be walking from teahouse to teahouse in the Himalayas! I may post brief updates, but not a full post until I'm back, on June 14th. So there will be a delayed Angkor Wat/Bangkok pt 2 post, and then a Nepal post after that, in just a couple of weeks.

See below for a few Nepal photos! I have totally fallen in love with Kathmandu and Pokhara, despite the discomfort and distress and ever-present fear of food poisoning. The Nepali poet Bhupi Sherchan puts it well: "This is a land of uproar and rumor/ Where deaf men who must wear hearing aids / Are judges at musical contests / And those whose souls are full of stones /are connoisseurs of poetry." It is mountainous beauty, poverty, spirituality, hope, pride, and playfulness, streaming down in a waterfall all at once.