I promise to go to an internet cafe and upload photos, but until then, I have to mention something about the Lake District that cannot go unacknowledged.
On our bus trip here, the (guanano-containing) landscape was dry and somewhat unremarkable, at least to Californians: rolling hills of low scrubby vegetation, all subtle browns and greens.
When the lakes flashed out at us from between the hills, it was shocking. The blue looked unreal. Nothing like the pale milky green of the Indus in the Himalayas, or the murky brown of the Mekong. Not even the dark blue of alpine lakes. This color made the safety paint along the road look dull. It´s the bright clear blue that drives bees crazy when they see it on flowers.
Now we´re off to hike to a lake. We can´t resist it either.
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It sounds so beautiful. It makes me miss Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think accounts for the difference in internet access as compared to the Asian part of your trip? Is it that there are more tourists? Or that there are fewer? Or is it the type of place you're staying and how much things cost?
Yes, it´s beautiful -- and not exactly a color like you get in Hawaiian seas, since there´s always some green in the (also beautiful) ocean there.
ReplyDeleteThere might be fewer internet cafes here than in most of the towns we visited in Asia. Probably more people have their own computers here, and there isn´t the extreme degree of supplying everything a traveler could wish for that you get in Southeast Asia.
(But also I confess that here I just want to go be outside and hike every day rather than sitting at a computer! )