Lily and Edward are currently in Kathmandu making final preparations for their trek to Everest Base Camp. During our stay here we have visited a few sites – Kopan Monastery, Boudanath Stupa and Bhaktapur. Today was the Water Festival and all commercial businesses were closed for the holiday. During this time all the younger people are throwing water balloons, buckets of water and any other water they can get their hands on at each other, or more particularly the boys throw it on the girls and vice versa. They also use some color paint to smear on each other. It is fun to watch as they throw water on pedestrians, passing cars, or motorcycles. They line the streets and roof tops waiting for the approaching victims. A great time for fun and laughter.
As for working here it is very difficult. We have electricity from 12pm to 4pm every day and also during the nights from 12am to 4am but at all other times they have no electricity except for some commercial businesses that have their own generators. We have to augment the generator power with candle light to read and work. The cell phones only work sporadically and the internet is very difficult to connect (especially WiFi) and almost impossible when the electricity is off.
Time to quite before I lose power or the computer just decides to stop working.
