Hello Himalayas!

Me at the famous-architect-
resort. Clearly I was thrilled
to be there.

We left around 8:30 in the morning for our next destination, which at the time I didn’t really know where that was. We ended up stopping for lunch at a mountain resort designed by a famous architect. The building was pretty lame, the food was worse than mediocre and extremely expensive (my most expensive meal on this entire trip, and probably one of the worst), and my cold was keeping me miserable and irritable. So in short, I wasn’t much of a happy camper.

We got back on the bus and began our mountain journey to our next hotel. And when I say mountain journey, I mean our small bus trekking up steep mountain roads with little to no space between the road and the massive cliff that we were driving on. I was slightly terrified, but it was incredibly beautiful and we were really able to see the Himalayas for the first time (the mountains around Kathmandu are smaller, more like massive hills, rather than the snow covered peaks we saw on this journey). We made it to the hotel around 6ish, and were shocked by the incredible view that we had there. The balconies directly faced the postcard-esque mountainscape.

Sunset on the mountains.

After dumping our bags in the rooms, we went for a walk through the local village. Apparently in our next project, which we’ll be starting in a few days, we’re going to be building and designing some sort of earthquake resistant community center, and we’re looking at how and why the local people building the way they do. The village main street was surprisingly quaint and inviting. After talking to some locals and eating dinner, we made our way back to the hotel and prepared to head to Chitwa National Park the following day.