The Last Resort is about 3 hours on the bus from Kathamandu, 10 miles from the Tibetan border. We went there for our final few days of R and R before we come home to you lot!! On the way there we got held up again, this time by a truck that had driven into a drain by the side of the road! Fortunately some resourceful locals managed to get it bac...

Nepal 2007: Report from Executive Director, Scott MacLennan: In March 2007, we invited a group of Mountain Fund Volunteers to trek the Tamang Heritage Trail with us. The trail is new and part of the governments program to improve poverty in rural areas through tourism. We wanted to check it out in preparation for our future treks. There are few ...

HAPPY 31 TYLER Trying to plan something special for #31 wasn't an easy task but I finally came across something that was a bit like Tyler. It was perfect to escape the busyness of city life and retreat into the Kathmandu Valley for a few days. It is only about 30 min outside the main city. I had found a place, Shivapuri Heights Villa, a private ...

Keeping with the theme of my previous work and inspired by the idea of being able to physically contribute to the building of someone's home, I decided to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity Nepal. Habitat is an international organisation that is dedicated to providing people with the opportunity to have a decent place to live. The main way this...

i can't lie. I'm actually in bangkok- it's 6:23am, I'm at the internet cafe with pages of notes scattered on the chair next to me. They are filled with obe\servations, stories, experiences of my time in Nepal which is now over. I want to make sure to encapsulate as much as my time now because as many of you now, I have a horrible memory and I do...

Itinary : Bangkok - Calcutta - Kathmandu (airplane) date : 15th October to 16th October 2007 Mileage so far : 5500 km still! Finally out of Thailand and in Kathmandu now! We left from our hotel in Bangkok at 3h30 am yesterday morning to be on time for our flight which was departing a 5h50 am...I boarded the Royal Bhutan airline plane which was b...

Begging will always be a difficult one for many people, especially in India. You may decide how you choose to deal with it, but for me at least it remains internally difficult. In a way it is clearer in places like McLeod Ganj or Delhi where someone asks you for money so constantly that there really is little you can do. There are all sorts of e...

Hello everyone! We are back in Kathmandu after our two week trek. Glad to be back, but loved every second of it. I am trying desperately to upload my pictures, but it never seems to work with the SLOW connections here... hopefully this site will work out!

Hi! I thought I should just update the blog before we head off to Thailand. As you know from his entry, Matt made it safely back from Everest Base Camp and even has the photos to prove it. We will upload some but we're waiting for slightly better connections, which we think we'll get in Thailand. This week we've spent our time exploring the Kath...

September 26, 2006: a day I had been waiting for with much anticipation. Returning to Nepal is a blessing, a gift, a much thought about dream. I'm here and I am so happy. A brief history of my love affair with this captivating country: 27 July 2005 I landed in Kathmandu for the first time. My visit was for 5 months during which I volunteered wit...