After signing off last night's blog, we headed back to the room for some much needed kip. The only problem was a cockroach the size of a dog wanted to fight over our bathroom. Now, remembering some extremely useful facts, I knew that not even a nuclear weapon could kill these bastards. So, I went ol'skool and picked him up and gave him a short journey on the watershoot of life. That's right I managed to do what the atom bomb couldn't with a simple flush of the toilet - have some!!!
Our next local visitor was a little gekko but he recognised my kung fu prowess straight away and backed out of the room before you could say "Dude, where's your tail?'
After that, Luke decided that safety was key and produced an extravegent hair net from his bag which scared me more than the bugs - how messed up does that picture look? I wrestled with the idea of flushing him down the toilet as well, but thought he was probably more scared of me than I was of him, so gave him the benefit of doubt.
With a start like this, you can easily understand why, come this morning, we decided to leave this golden palace and search for greener pastures. We're now staying at the Hotel Marchyangdi (view from the room, below) and are much more comfortable. Mind you, it's only for one night as we're off trekking tomorrow. Back of the net!!!
Today, we ventured out to see the Monkey Temple - probably not it's actual name, but it seemed fitting due to the numbers of, yep, you guessed it, stray dogs that lived there. OK, there were monkeys as well but I swear there were more dogs. This temple was sadly the location of our first brush with crime though as Luke's bottle of Mountain Dew was stolen by a swift moving monkey with a penchant for drinks which turn your tongue yellow. The last laugh was on the monkey though as the drink was a month out of date. Ha ha, gutted!
This is me at the temple just as I left the 36 Chambers - "Now I'll show you my Wu-Tang style!"
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