Off to ride elephant - blog re boiled goats head later hopefully xxx

Hi All! Got shipped out of Kathmandu unexpectedly last Wednesday morning at 6.30. Not to Pokhara as expected, but to a tiny village in the Chitwan National Park called Ganganagar. It's on the edge of the Rapiti river, there are rhino, crocodiles, loads of birds, elephants and apparently, wild peacocks... The project I'm with has built a school, an orphanage, a crocodile hatchery and various paths/bridges and viewpoints to encourage eco-tourism. I'm teaching i...

Well, what an exciting few days... My technological challenges continue: none of my chargers work (including the solar one), I can access the internet from Happy Home (where I'm staying for the next 3-4 days) but the browser is unsupported by by email client! It's fab, and very Nepali. Spent the afternoon looking around the Monkey Temple. Very old and fascinating. Prayer flags festooned everywhere and the rattling of prayer wheels spinning. Monks chanting and m...

Hi Guys! Greetings from Kathmandu. Got here at 17.30 last night - after a very long 24 hours including 10 hour stop over in Qatar. Unfortunately, mobile coverage is very, very patchy, and Kathmandu is currently having it's electricity cut off for 16 hours per day, so I may be more out of touch than I thought. Anyway - I'm here safe and sound, the people are lovely, I've done 3 hours of Nepali language classes this morning and am about to head off sight se...