The Last Resort, Barabise, Nepal

Trip Start Dec 08, 2007
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Trip End Aug 14, 2008


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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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 back on the road. 
 
The Last Resort is set in the mountains next to the Bhote Kosi River and boasts the only bungy jump in Nepal, which is the second highest in the world. We didn't go for that, we went to enjoy the scenery, live in a safari tent and have a few saunas and massages. We went for five days and did almost nothing apart from catch up on some zzzzzzzzzz, read a lot, have a massage and eat lots of veg!
 
The project supports all sorts of local community initiatives, so we weren't just being extrmemly lazy! 1 - The suspension bridge to The Last Resort
1 - The suspension bridge to The Last Resort
 !  For example the massages are provided by a project that employs Nepali people from the Dalit or so called 'untouchable' caste, who have historically experienced centuries of discrmination as the lowest caste, not only in Nepal, and as such are deemed literally untouchable.  Things are changing for these people, but progress seems to be patchy.
 
We were slightly worried about the bus journey back to Kathmandu, the roads, landslides, buses and bus drivers are notorious in Nepal. So we blagged a lift with a group who had arrived on a Dragoman, a sort of 4x4 tour bus called Archie and arrived back much earlier after a considerably safer and more comfortable journey!   
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allynka
allynka on Aug 6, 2008 at 09:21PM

Final leg!!!!!!!!!!!
Well nearly the end of your epic journey. Have you got writers block? No comments on the last two entries but then I'm not surprised you must have written the equivalent of War and Peace. Enjoy your last few days in India and see you both soon.
House Hunting next eh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lynn

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