The 14th of March

This day was our first excursion-day in Nepal, and we were all really excited to see more of the country. After our morninggathering and about an hour of culture- and religionclass, we all got on a bus and headed for the wetlands where we would visit temples. The busride was extremely bumpy, and there were many obstacles on our way - for instance, our driver's helper had to climb on top of the bus to remove electrical wires hanging really low. Besides, the engine kept setting out, and we weren't always sure whether or not the driver would be able to start again. When we arrived at the first location, which was a beautiful little lake, we all stumbled out of the bus with our cameras and started clicking away, which made us look like a group of Japanese tourists. We soon found out that we are very different than the japanese though, since our heavy Danish Viking-bodies almost made the boats sailing us across the lake sink! The weather was great, and with the breeze on the lake and the beautiful surroundings, we couldn't help but love the fact that we are finally in Nepal. It was certainly worth the 1,60 Danish Kroner we paid for a boat and a boatsman!
After the sailing, we ate some sandwiches on the bus while going to the first temple of the day. It was situated on top of a hill, and we had to climb a rough 256 steps - or that was how many there are officially, but Thomas counted 353 of them, so it's understandable that some of us were short of breath when reaching the top! We had a great time there though, and the locals were really friendly.
They gave us all red dots on our foreheads and came with food which we were too polite to say no to - luckily, noone has gotten the diarrhea yet!
The next temple was in a forrest and it was interesting to see how different the temples are here. We visited a monestary and saw young boys being taught by a lama. The third temple was different again from the last 2, and we spent most time here doing funny roleplays for each other. It was a great day with a lot of new impressions and experiences, and I personally slept the whole way back to the platform. Pretty nice accomplishment if I may say so, with all that honking and bumping on the streets here in crazy Nepal!