Day 113, Gangtok [Monday 24th March 2008]
Previous day: Day 112, Yumthang Valley [Sunday 23rd March 2008]
Next day: Day 114, Gangtok [Tuesday 25th March 2008]
After Tibetan bread and hot chocolate for breakfast we drive back to Gangtok. On the way we see an interesting building-site method we call 'the two-person shovel procedure'. It works like this: two female labourers (they're invariably women) stand in front of a big pile of gravel/sand/earth which is being used or excavated from a road/wall/building. One of them holds a shovel. A length of rope is tied around the head of the shovel, and the second person hold the other end of this rope. The first person then digs the shovel into the pile of stuff to be moved, followed by the second person yanking on the rope, resulting in a shovelful of stuff being rather inefficiently and untidily moved from one pile to another. The procedure seems to be quite widespread, and it's absolutely hilarious to watch a job being performed with so little application or enthusiasm.
In Gangtok we upload some of our photos, print out the instructions for a new card game called Casino and watch "You, Me & Dupree" starring Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson.
Next day: Day 114, Gangtok [Tuesday 25th March 2008]
Previous day: Day 112, Yumthang Valley [Sunday 23rd March 2008]