My third day in Thimphu began with an alarm at 5:15am. I needed to shower for the annual bath. Basically you need to shower early in the morning before attending the festival and then receiving a blessing from Buddha. And at six am I was to meet Tshultrim for an early morning brisk walk. Brisk actually turned out to be frigid and I was poorly dressed, despite having brought hat, gloves, scarf and fleece, which I left in the hotel. Oh well…it woke me up, that’s for sure. At breakfast, I ate by myself this time…which I don’t mind since it gives me an opportunity to listen to other peoples conversations and seriously, people talk about the weirdest things. One woman had a whole meal on the topic of doughnuts (I don’t think there are any
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