Walking to Tshimisham yesterday to go to the ATM and withdraw some cash for the book fair, I was passed by a dump truck full of indian workers returning to their shanty home after their day of breaking rocks on the side of the road for road construction. Such contrast.
The landscape is indescribable. In the bus looking at a monastery on a ridge. It dominates the landscape for about 40 minutes of the drive from Chukha to Thimphu. Trying to see a route to walk up there, thinking I can see one, then realizing that there is yet another, then another, then another ridge before the monastery. Covered in jungle, yet power lines wind their way up the mountain.
Monkeys. I have seen a few small ones; in Gasa, on the road to Gedu (south of Chukha). Once I was gazing out the window into an orchard and thought the monkey was a cow or something. Today I saw a troop of large monkeys - no they are not as big as cows, bounding across the road. Their tails are very large and long. They were . . . ? cougar ? sized.
Wow - Monkeys! That's fun - do they come into town at all??
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Rob
No Monkeys up here where it is cold:)
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