Last when I posted was just after my bath/ shower with the elephant, it was the same elephant I had ridden the day before.  Went to eat lunch but half way thru boy! Oh boy! Did I get sick with intestinal cramps....  I think it was something other than the aquatic elephant experiemce, because it was less than hour since that occured.  Did the usual medical remedies, and doubled the dosage, but the symptoms persisted four days.  This morning is the first time I have felt half way decent.  Anyway I Flew back to kathmandu without embarrassing myself, stayed in bed, couldn't eat, and did manage to do the four hour tour the first day,  But did the three hour tour the second day.  The Flights to Bangkok and Singapore were eventful, except both flights served the same high curry chicken dinner, and just when I was feeling good enough to eat, but not spicy curry.  But back to Nepal, last I remembered anything about Nepal was when the prince had killed his father and other family members.  But two guides, and a lady who is native Nepelees, but now lives in Australia filled me in on the government.  Maoist zealots control the country, and won the election by a thousand rupee bribe or a gun barrel to the head.  What they all told me was that great words were spoken but nothing was done.  Two of them even brought up that the prince didn't kill his family members, it was a communist coup plain and simple, and the blame was put on the prince.  No body video taped it, so who knows what really happened.  But services are not being delivered, garbage, strikes (transport strike the day of my four hour tour) so getting around was easier than usual.  The five, six, seven hundred year old temples are still in ruins, collapsed, or propped by wooden beams.  And this is all over, except the private buildings seem to have been repaired.  I was told the UNISCO has given a lot of money for monument relief, but none has been spent.  One reason is a fight between the traditionalists and more modern viewpoints.  Every old temple is made of bricks, and there appears to be no morter between the bricks.  The ancient builders used a paste made up of molasses, and other organic materials and traditionalists want the old paste used, the modernists was mortar.  In looking carefully at in damaged parts of these temples, there appears to be no mortar.