Sometimes we need to look back...to find our way forward.
One of the original Lonely Planet Blog Sherpas. Just kept the name to represent my life travel experiences.
Aside from posting a back log of blog posts, current posts have been rare these days since we have mainly been focusing our efforts on finding a dhera to live in. Dhera’s are residential places …
We just completed our first week of work. In-country-training ended for us last week us and while the out-of-valley volunteers shipped out to their placements this week, most of the Kathmandu valley volunteers started work …
Nayaa barsako shuba kamanah (New Year good wishes)! I have a back log of blog posts and photos that I will slowly post up in the next days. Updates include: Our language and cultural training …
41 days later in Nepal… After our long and unexpected good byes to our Nepali families, we began to make our way back to the Pacific Guest House in Kathmandu. The sun was starting to …
On December 16th, the VSO Volunteer November ’08 group embarked on a 9-day Village Stay in Chankhu Besi thaau near Dhulikhel. As part of VSO’s In-Country-Training (ICT) programme, the 12 volunteers and their guru’s will …
Yesterday marked the end of our first week in Kathmandu. I think the “honeymoon” stage is officially over and reality is starting to kick in. Nepali winter has finally grasped it’s hold throughout the valley …
It’s officially Day 2. It has only been 2 days and I have already endured a mammoth proportion of new experiences that I think my head is going to explode. Everything is fine of course but …
As soon as we arrived at Kathmandu International Airport, we had to fill out two forms before clearing immigration (a landing card and a visa application). For now, we had to get tourist visa ($40 USD) …
We survived the 9 hour flight from Vancouver and had an 8 hour layover at London’s Heathrow International Airport. We debated about seeing London during that time and once we arrived we found that it …
We just got on the ferry from Nanaimo after a spending some quality time with the in-laws in Courtenay (amazing dinners and thank you for everything!). Time went by really fast.