Tuesday May 27 Using a hotel computer on the shores of Lake Tana in Ethiopia. There is only dial up so unable to update our journey more fully. We will do so as soon as we can, maybe a few days so …. watch this space .
We are both well and looking forward to sharing [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Ethiopia
May 27, 2008
Bhutan to Delhi to Dubai … in transit
May 26, 2008
Sunday 25 May The 5am start to the day was fine and we set off for the one hours drive to the Bhutan airport. During the journey we discussed the possibility of returning to Bhutan in the future. Ngedrup (our guide) would like us to bring groups of people to visit. He suggested that July [...]
Photos
May 24, 2008
Evening at the Taj Mahal
Bhutan 6
May 24, 2008
Saturday May 24th. Fine weather and a magnificent view across a huge valley basin about 2 kilometres wide, welcomed us this morning. The backdrop was of course more mountains.
We had breakfast in our room and at 8.00 a.m. we left for the drive back to where we came from, bumpy roads and all. However this [...]
Bhutan 5
May 24, 2008
Friday May 23. After a discussion with the manager of the hotel about the presentation of the rooms at his hotel we set off at 8.00 a.m. for the local Dzong we had seen from the outside the evening before. The jacaranda trees along the riverbank were about 50 feet high and in spectacular bloom [...]
Bhutan 4
May 24, 2008
Thursday May 22nd We were up early today to try and sort out a problem with our 3 week old Canon camcorder. For some reason the lens cover does not fully open and with only half of the lens ’seeing’ we are unable to take any more ‘movies’ until we get the problem fixed. We [...]
Bhutan 3
May 22, 2008
Bhutan 3.
Thurs May 22.
Away to a good start with the weather again fine and warm. We left our hotel in Paro shortly after 8.00 am and headed out to the main road to the capital Thimphu but not before stopping to watch several women pulling rice shoots from the nursery bed before transplanting into the [...]
Bhutan 2
May 22, 2008
Bhutan 2
Tuesday May 20th
Bhutan has no shortage of water and it feels soft and refreshing. So the hot shower followed by breakfast at 7.30 a.m. was a good start to the day. By 8.00 am we were travelling to the area where we would start our climb up to the ‘Taksung’ or ‘Tiger‘s Nest’. We [...]
Bhutan 1
May 22, 2008
Bhutan 1
Monday May 19
We left the hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal at 12.30 after another lovely breakfast sitting out in the courtyard. Pujan helped us to post a small parcel back to NZ and then he and his wife Michelle farewelled us. We gave them a book on India which we had been given by our [...]
Photos
May 19, 2008
This is a photo of Louise and her two children, Holly and Tim, taken when we were in Sydney. We are still working out the intricacies of uploading photos to wordpress, but will have them up so you can share in our journey as soon as possible!
