Bob and I got up at 4 AM and stumbled around our incredibly badly designed room - its only redeeming feature is that the A/C works well. The bed was in an alcove so narrow that to get into bed one had to walk sideways to squeeze in. And then once in you discovered that there is no light switch, you have to return to the door to flip off the five wall switches. The room has five hangers but no place to hang them. There are no hooks in the bathroom , and the desk, while a nice idea, was built for a first grader! But it turned out that we got the deluxe suite as some of our group didn't get a toilet seat, and one had to put up with an eastern squatter!
We got onto our bus at 5, and drove slowly west along the Indian border. We saw a sign alerting us to the presence of elephants, except the sign showed an African one. Unfortunately we didn't see any, but we did see some nice birds including the Rose-ringed Parakeet, my favorite bird from our trip to India in December.
Rose-ringed Parakeet
After 25 miles we turned right and started north, rapidly ascending into then mountains again. We met our crew for lunch and tried to look at some birds and plants, but we encountered a lot of truck traffic -about 50 large rumbling trucks came by and the stretch where we were wasn't paved, so the dust was really bad. 
We got to about 6000' and turned into a grassy area near a chorten covered with prayer flags. 
Cocktail Hour by the Prayer Flags
We had beers and popcorn and did the list followed by a very jolly dinner in the dining tent with samosas, chicken curry and other dishes. Our crew cooked us a special cake as this as our last dinner with them.
Farewell Dinner Cake
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