Monday, January 23, 2012

Day 5

Rest Day in Tal

Because of the high river gorge Tal gets less than 4 hours of sunlight, from 11:15 to 2:45.  During that time everyone in town seems to stop whatever work they are doing to lounge in the sun...
There is a Buddhist Stupa (temple) in town with a beautiful waterfall just behind, we can see this from our guesthouse window.



We are beginning to lose interest in the circuit trek because of the lack of mountain views and the road construction, coupled with the lack of fellow trekkers and Ben's cold.  We decide to give the trek and the cold one more day (and more elevation) to improve or else we would turn around...