Still enjoying Pokhara…

Along the Lake we’ve enjoyed this coffee/tea shack and made it our home away from home.

While drinking tea we watch all sorts of folks walking buy carrying anything from dishes to foods for sale:

It only takes a bit of encouragement for me to help add some color –

One of the colorful sales guys who caught my attention was a guy selling flutes. At first I thought this was his hat…. then I looked more closely:

Tomorrow we’re visiting a settlement for refugees from Tibet (some of them have lived here for 50-60 years and they have no rights – They can’t own land, they can’t own a business… not even a car. They can’t become citizens in Nepal (the government here owes big favors to China and can’t anger them by being nice to the folks from Tibet) and can’t leave the country because they don’t have passports. I wasn’t planning on bringing balloons, but we’ll be visiting a local school there…. I think I might get the with-drawals if I don’t have some in my pockets…..