Thimpu

The landing announcement went something along the line of "don't be alarmed if we fly very near the mountains. This is standard landing procedure.

 I can't really explain what the first glance of Bhutan was like but..Wow.

The Bhutanese airport:
Landing into clear blue skies and lovely weather's a good sign.

Beauty is very pleasing to the eyes

This is the largest mall in Bhutan

I took this photo because it struck me that we were so high up that the clouds cast shadows on the mountains

We visited a paper factory. The left is the plant they use, I think it was something called Daphne (well it sounded like that anyway). And they boil it in a stove.

They then remove the water and you get some pulp like mush.

It's then made into a sheet

And then they're laid on metal boards that heat and dry the sheets

We also went to a weaving place:

I think it's great these arts are still surviving. The products are really beautiful too. And it must be really hard to do this work, so meticulous choosing each string to lift or not based on the patterns for each line..

The products are of course, not that cheap hahaha...

le kitten

Still no one seems to want the kitten. I think it's growing on me. Especially since I think it's finally getting rid of all it's ringworms. We'd to give it medicine to make it purge itself of ringworms through its poo poo...and yea it was qt gross..I got a new camera! So I decided to take some pictures of the kitten:

It's quite playful. My brother wants to name it Tsubasa -.- which I said is a gay name for a kitten. Anyway no one calls it Tsubasa so far. We all just call it 'the kitten' or 'the cat'. What do you think? Is it cute? SOMEONE PLEASE ADOPT IT...hahahaha...

Oh by the way, hope everyone had an awesome Mid-Autumn festival! Do you guys know the significance of water caltrop and why we have it during the Mid-Autumn festival? I've been trying to find out but no results so far..