Blogs from Nepal, Asia - page 388

8:30 am 3/16: Woke up this morning at Linda's!! Totally different touching down in Kathmandu from Bangkok. Dimly lit terminal/concourse building, but with 2 baggage carousels, but lovely people. Linda picked us up with a driver and van - small 4-lane roads in town, but they make 6 lanes out of them - and you never really know where any one lane will be at one time! Here is a photo of LInda's house in Lalitpur, it is about a 5 minute walk from the Filters for Families office building. Looks like we will head to the field tomorrow. Went to stupa yesterday afternoon and going to cultural area this afternoon. Very excited to meet with a Kathmandu University IT prof this afternoon right after lunch. Miss you all - gotta run so the other ladies ... read more

SULL'HIMALAYA IN WALLS E SCARPE DA GINNASTICA Cronache da 4000 metri di altitudine Non voglio mettermi fretta: questo è già un atteggimento velenoso del XX secolo. Se vuoi fare qualcosa in fretta significa che non te ne importa più niente e vuoi passare a fare altro. Robert M. Pirsig E così il 4 parte la Grande Avventura! Il primo passo da compiere è quello di raggiungere il piccolo villaggio punto di partenza del trekking. Arrivarci è già un'impresa ardua: anche se le guide parlan del Langtang come del trekking di più facile accesso da Kathmandu, per percorrere qualcosa come 140 km impieghiamo 10 ore. Di mattina prestissimo, dopo aver lasciato il bagaglio in eccesso in hotel, andiamo all'autostazione e prendiamo il bus. La strada si arrampica su per le montagne e offre piacevoli scorci del Ganesh ... read more

Hey guys I have a bunch of pictures labelled and ordered..ready for posting. But the internet is killing me with its slowness….I’ve been trying out different programs for picture posting but none are working as of yet. I’ll keep trying. To celebrate my last night of orientation we went to “Nepali Chulo” which is a traditional Nepali meal with traditional dancing as entertainment. It was held in a restored old castle and we dressed up in saris to go. (A sari is from India and involves a really beautiful piece of material that you kinda drape around yourself) I had to borrow a sari and it was a remarkably complicated process to put one on. Today was my second day working at the Shanti Sewa Griha clinic, which is a really extraordinary place. It is a ... read more

13 Mars: Vi vaknade upp till ljudet av smattrande regn och ett stort malntacke over hela Kathmandu. Sofie kande av smartor i magtrakten och Johan fixade sjalvkart medicin fran det lokala Apoteket. Efter forsta dosen kande sig Sofie redan battre! Denna dagen anvande vi till att lara kanna omradet runt Guesthouse. Som gjort for turister med mycket shopping i form av klader (Pashmina och Cashmir), fotobutiker, affarer som salde The North Face-kopior, restauranger, fik och massor av manniskor som ville att vi skulle aka taxi med dem, rickshaw (cykeltaxi) eller kopa resor. Trots dubbla fleecetrojor och Goretexjackor borjade vi frysa framat eftermiddagen. Vi lyxade oss da med massage for Johan och fotmassage och harklippning for Sofie, hela kalaset gick pa ca 130 SEK! Nar strommen helt plotsligt gick i hela Kathmandu sent pa kvallen(vilket den tydligen ... read more

I'm off tomorrow to start the Annapurna circuit trek which should take somewhere between 16 and 20 days. During this time I'm pretty sure I won't have access to the outside world, so just in case anyone is trying to e-mail/text me I'm not ignoring you! Which reminds me - I haven't been able to use my mobile in Nepal since I got here, so if anyone has texted me over the last couple of weeks I won't have received it. Also I don't think my phone will be functioning again until I get back into the UK on the 25th April. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the trek as its supposed to be one of the most amazing in the world - hopefully I'll get a couple of decent pictures too...... read more