People around us

One amazing thing about travelling is that you get to meet great people which such different backgrounds, aims and ways of going about their life and journey. Just a few examples here.

In a bus after my trek back to Kathmandu I met this Scottish girl my age who has one holiday a year from her busy work and she used it for volunteering in Nepal in an orphanage and old people’s home. She said working in the old people’s home was the toughest for her…washing bed linens dirty from human excrements by hand.  She left only couple of days of her stay in Nepal to use for a holiday and was trying to arrange a one day rafting trip at the time.

I met an older Australian gentleman who is now the very first person in the whole Australia to have an electric car. We talked a lot about eco products etc. He had collected all the plastic bottles that he had used/bought in Nepal and was planning to take them with him to Australia unless he can find out that in Kathmandu there is a place where they recycle plastic. He was also a very calm person. He had booked a two day rafting trip. It turned out on Trisuli river this time of year there is only a one day option. If you would continue from the end point of the first day onwards, there would be no rapids at all, too calm. So he will have to do the same strip of river twice. Of course the travel agent had not told him so. But he was not mad about it at all. Totally happy to do it again.

I met a group of Duchmen of 40+ who are dentists. They were 8 people and for 10 days they went from village to village to give dental services to the poor. Previous year they had done the same in Bangladesh and were happy that in Nepal it was also possible to combine volunteering with some amazing trekking in the Himalayas.

A Japanese girl with whom I flew together from Kuala Lumpur to Kathmandu was on a one year travel as well. Her whole luggage was like 6kg, no kidding. 

I met an American girl who had been volunteering in the villages in India and Nepal helping little businesses and some organizations with the business plans, customer service education and whatsoever. She also threw a big thanksgiving dinner, which was amazing. Stuffed turkey is indeed something to rave about. 

And this is just couple of examples of the foreigners. And then there are the Nepali people. Peace of my heart is left in Nepal.