Today I received word that I am confirmed to visit Chitwan Park in Nepal. It's a jungle park in the south of the country, complete with elephants, rhinos, and muggers. Muggers are crocodiles that live in the marsh areas and they received their moniker after the British colonisers saw these loveable creatures dragging unsuspecting villagers to the water. To further enhance their reputation, the marsh muggers are related to the Australian saltwater crocodile. If only Mick Hogan was going to be travelling with me. [View Full Entry]

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This week another volunteer, on her way home to England has joined us, in Godawari. Her name is Miriam, she has been working down in a project near the Indian border, making mosaics with Deaf children. It has been nice to meet her, she is studying for a degree in Contemporary Practice at Leeds. We all went down to visit the girls in their house, they were incredibly exited and I had to do Hindi Film style dancing for them, which was quite exhausting. The sculptures are going OK and I hope that the girls are enjoying it and learning some [View Full Entry]

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Namaste! Is hello in Nepali. So far I have been in Nepal for about 10 days now and what a break it is from India although the two countries are very similar. There are not as many people though the cities are still crowded, the people are friendly and not always trying to rip you off, but you have to be on your guard! I completed a 6 day trek with several Koreans I met to Annapurna Base Camp, near a small city of Pokhara in Nepal. The trek was very long, often 6 to 8 hours of trekking a day [View Full Entry]

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A new work blog (part I) is up about working with the Uterine Prolapse Alliance. Part II will follow in the next few days with a photos and a description of a community information session that I facilitated and observed yesterday in Nawalparasi district. http://advocacynet.org/blogs/index.php?blog=107 [View Full Entry]

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We survived! And it was amazing! We were extremely lucky with weather and views and we had a great time! We started trekking every day between 6:30-7:30 depending on how long of a day we had and ended between 2:30-5 with usually 1.5 hour break for lunch. So our days were pretty long, but we weren't going terribly fast, instead choosing to enjoy the views and experience the Himalayas. Plus we were at a pretty high elevation so we didn't want to go too fast. Okay, here goes... We spent the night in Pokhara before we left. Nice beds with mattresses, [View Full Entry]

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More pictures! [View Full Entry]

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Sorry for the delay folks just been having a rare old time here! I do have photos to put on but I can't get the technology to work here! We depart to Calcutta tomorrow so perhaps I will have more luck there, I will keep trying! With the luxury of time on our side we have been quite lazy and not rushed around. We visited the Garden of Dreams on the edge of Thamel and this was really a delightful treat in such a busy area. The garden has many water features and is full of plants and trees. It is [View Full Entry]

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Hi travel lovers, if anyone wants to visit my country I am there to give you my company. [View Full Entry]

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on our way to go to pokhara we traveled on a bus roof for about 3 hours, surronded by himalayas montains, amazing !!! [View Full Entry]

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we stayed even less than 24 hours in bandipur but we definitely had one of the best time in our all trip... we just went for a walk in the montain and met the most local people than we could ever met there. [View Full Entry]

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