Nepal
Nepal will forever hold a special place in my heart. I laughed till my sides hurt, hiked till my legs ached and left a better person from this experience having shared it with such wonderful people.
I had booked this with Sunrise Adventure Trek and Expedition because it was such a deal. Turns out everyone else on this excursion did the same thing putting me in a 15 person group with people who lived as close to me as Sacramento to across the world in Melbourne, Australia, but somehow we were all connected. We started off in Kathmandu for 2 nights and made our way through the city and chapels. Taking in the organized chaos that the city had to offer was a mixture of craziness and awe. The way they make their way through the traffic with what seems like little, to no rules combining bikes, scooters, cars, buses, trucks animals, and pretty much anything else you can imagine on pot-holed roads, was jaw dropping that an accident didn’t occur every minute. Once we made our way out of Katmandu and on a flight to Annapurna, things slowed down to a much more welcoming pace.
This tour was equipped with our amazing guides Suresh and Ram, about 7 singing, instrument playing Sherpas to carry all our stuff and thoroughly entertain us, and 15 of us taking on the trek. It was such an amazing experience. The hiking was “Nepalie Flat” which means “a little up, a little down” and the scenery was out of this world. Every day it felt like we were in a different climate. One day it would be like a dry mountainous range that was so cold it was practically snowing, and the next would be like you were going through the rain forest in shorts and a tank top. And there were baby animals everywhere! We were kind of obsessed with them. Between baby goats, lambs, chicks, calves and puppies it was like a petting zoo. The children too, were just precious! I just loved the whole environment that Nepal exuded.
My time in Nepal was one of those experiences that made me realize just what a beautiful world we live in. Between the people and overall epic nature of the trek it could be one of my favorite places so far. One might even call it Yaktastic!
