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Namaste!
Nepal is awesome! Kathmandu was a bit of a shock- we were picked up from the airport and driven to our hotel and I sat in the front and seriously did not think I'd make it! There don't seem to be any road rules except drive on any side of the road, overtake everyone and beep your horn as loudly and often as possible. To make things harder, there are people, dogs, cows, bikes and rickshaws on the road too -an organised chaos- terrifying!! If you need to cross a lane of oncoming traffic, don't wait for a gap, just drive out and hope they stop! Scary!
It is an incredibly busy and dirty city, the air is very polluted. It is also very poor which is sad because children beg and women ask for milk for their babies that we are asked by officials not to give.
We spent two days here, and did a bit of shopping - clothes for like $2!! Then headed off on a 5 hour bus trip to the start of our trek!
We are now up to day 6 of our trek, and are having today off (in the village Chame) because Mum is a bit sick and John is too sore to walk. We've been walking about 6 hours a day so far though, so lots of exercise!!! The food is yummy, I'm a bit of a dal bhat junkie (rice, curry and lentils) but the nasty ecoli bacteria have got us all a bit and we've all had our fair share of desperate runs to the toilet!
The tracks are amazing, walking through tropical forest (I saw a family of monkeys yeaterday), villages, and rocky mountain areas. We often have to stand aside while groups of 10-50 colourfully decorated donkeys wearing ringing bells and carrying goods in and out of the mountains walk past us. we haven't seen any fall of the cliffs luckily, but Ruth and I did walk past one that had died trying to give birth along the track-very sad!
It is Spring over here, so there are baby animals everywhere (goats, buffalo, dogs, chickens...all wandering around!). But this also means that the fields of marijuana we've walked through have been out of season :( - just kidding..
It is very hard when children in the villages ask for food or pens, because we are not supposed to encourage begging.
We are at 2710m at the moment, wich is more than double Mt Wellington (which is 1200m), so it's getting pretty chilly - especially at night time!! The highest we'll get to is around 5416m I trhink so that's gonna be crazily cold and have very thin air, so we'll take that very slowly!!
I better go, because I'm raking up a fair bill here! Hope everyone is well, feel free to email or message me or whatever, I'd love to hear from you!
Time for a big pot milk tea!
Sarah xx
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