Our Team is our family like we always say we have 3 family, one family by blood, the other family who come to join trekking with us leaving their home town trusting us and last but not the least our DTW team who work day and night to make our valuable clients comfortable and take them places for what they came for. Today DTW organized, a entertainment tour for DWT team to Trisuli River Rafting , everyone enjoyed thoroughly and proof is the smiles in the pictures, they also did barbecue 🍖🍖 Campfire 🏞🌋 and everything that made them feel relaxed as they spent most of their time in Himalayan Regions with Our clients. Thanks you to everyone who made this possible, especially our CEO Paul Gurung and Our MD Bimal Gurung. . . . . . . . . . . #discoveryworldtrekking #rafting #trisuli #funtrekteam #dwtteam #campfire #barbque #riverside (at Trisuli, Nepal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxHrgAhl77D/?igshid=1391ndz4qoqlz
Our Team is our family like we always say we have 3 family, one family by blood, the other family who come to join trekking with us leaving their home town trusting us and last but not the least our DTW team who work day and night to make our valuable clients comfortable and take them places for what they came for. Today DTW organized, a entertainment tour for DWT team to Trisuli River Rafting , everyone enjoyed thoroughly and proof is the smiles in the pictures, they also did barbecue 🍖🍖 Campfire 🏞🌋 and everything that made them feel relaxed as they spent most of their time in Himalayan Regions with Our clients. Thanks you to everyone who made this possible, especially our CEO Paul Gurung and Our MD Bimal Gurung. . . . . . . . . . . #discoveryworldtrekking #rafting #trisuli #funtrekteam #dwtteam #campfire #barbque #riverside (at Trisuli, Nepal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxHrgAhl77D/?igshid=16gco95zjbpr9
Our Team is our family like we always say we have 3 family, one family by blood, the other family who come to join trekking with us leaving their home town trusting us and last but not the least our DTW team who work day and night to make our valuable clients comfortable and take them places for what they came for. Today DTW organized, a entertainment tour for DWT team to Trisuli River Rafting , everyone enjoyed thoroughly and proof is the smiles in the pictures, they also did barbecue 🍖🍖 Campfire 🏞🌋 and everything that made them feel relaxed as they spent most of their time in Himalayan Regions with Our clients. Thanks you to everyone who made this possible, especially our CEO Paul Gurung and Our MD Bimal Gurung. . . . . . . . . . . #discoveryworldtrekking #rafting #trisuli #funtrekteam #dwtteam #campfire #barbque #riverside (at Trisuli, Nepal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxHrgAhl77D/?igshid=gru6xjt3cc6r
Early the following morning we headed to the bus station. We got our tickets, found the right bus heading to Trisuli and we were on our way to the All Hands volunteer base.
I have to add here that the reason we were in Nepal at this point during our travels is because while we were in Germany we received an email from All Hands saying our application had been accepted and we were welcome to join the team for 2 weeks end of October/beginning of November. Throughout the course of our adventure around the world our plans changed frequently. Although originally we had planned to be in Nepal in October for trekking, at the point in time when we received the email our plans had changed and we were thinking of staying in Europe through the Fall with the intention to slow down our travels. However, this was an offer we didn’t want to pass up and so we confirmed and booked our flights ..ending up in Nepal in the Fall after all.
The bus ride turned out to be unlike any bus ride I had ever taken. The road was incredibly bumpy - partly from the damage caused by the earthquake - and windy. Most of the road didn’t have a guardrail and the bus would drive just a foot from the side of the road beyond which the ground dropped steeply down. However, ~5 hours later we stopped for lunch in Trisuli and had our first ever ‘Nepali Thali’. Afterwards it was just a short drive to our stop and after asking a few locals we found our way to base - in one piece ..with all our luggage (which we have heard is not always the case as luggage typically gets strapped to the roof.. and well it could happen that upon arrival it is no longer there :S).
My first impressions of Nepal (beyond Kathmandu) included a green rolling landscape covered in plenty of rice fields and snow covered peaks that could be seen here and there in the distance; basic living conditions that reminded me of some rural parts of Mexico that I have seen; a lot of construction sites - likely partly as a result of the earthquake damage; a lot of shops selling ‘cultural’ items and knockoffs of popular brands such as Nike, Adidas, and The North Face (seen even in the smallest of towns in the countryside); and curious-friendly-helpful Nepalis who for the most part spoke enough English to help us out. (:
Flying through the Air - with Royal Nepal Airlines
Der Orient im Spiegel - die spannende Anreise nach Nepal im Herbst 1972!
Das Dach der Welt - aus dem Flugzeug erstmals zu sehen bekommen!
Das Leben auf den Strassen von Kathmandu - die perfekten Models in Position.
Das Kathmandu-Tal und ein kleiner, feiner Annapurna-Treck!
Und dann ging es in die Berge... ganz und gar zu Fuss!
Auf zum Trekking - vierzehn Tage zu Fuss im Angesicht der Achttausender!
Von Trisuli Bazaar per Pedes mit 16 kg Gepäck auf dem Buckel in zwei Wochen zum Langtang und zurück.
Ein Trekking Permit ist ausserhalb des Kathmandu-Tals obligatorisch!
Immerhin war weder Mobilfunk, noch Internet oder gar Google Maps erfunden, damals war’s in 1972!
Ohne GPS und ohne richtige Landkarten zu Fuss durch den Himalaya - geht’s noch?
Trekking, nicht ganz schmerzfrei!
14 Tage per Pedes und mit 16 kg Gepäck auf dem Buckel in dünner Bergluft unterwegs.
Wer seine körperlichen Grenzen kennenlernen will, macht Trekking im Himalaya!
Trekking im Himalaya und das noch weit entfernte Ziel, der 7.500 m hohe Langtang, stets vor Augen - ein richtig geiler Berg!
Syabrubensi am Langtang Trekking Trail ist nach mehreren Tagen erreicht, die Vorräte können hier leider nicht aufgefüllt werden - die Leute hatten selber nix.
Treppe hoch, eine sichere Unterkunft - mit Lufthansa-Schild - wartet auf die müden Wanderer.
Zu essen - eine Handvoll Mehl, in einem Kump mit Wasser aufgefüllt. Kein Ei, kein Brot, kein Käse!
Mehl machen - Getreide-Verarbeitung wie vor tausend Jahren.
Und da stöhnen wir schon leise unseren Wahlspruch nur beim Zugucken:
‘Das Leben ist hart und unerbittlich!’
Aber, was sollen da nur die genügsamen und fleissigen Nepalis sagen?
Der Pasang Lamu Highway - sieben Stunden noch bis Tibet, aber bitte nur zu Fuss!
Eine sichere Übernachtung im 4.100 m Höhe - Höhenfieber vor Glück im Angesicht des Himalaya-Hauptkamms.
Ein richtig geiler Berg - der Langtang, 7.500 m hoch und die Gipfel bilden die Grenze zu Tibet, das bekanntlich vom Riesenreich China besetzt wurde.
Abenteuer im Himalaya - in mehr als 4.000 m Höhe kurz über, und lang in den Wolken.
Gletscher am Langtang Trekking Trail - erlebte Abenteuer im Himalaya
Vier Wochen Nepal und dann... noch eine Woche Highlights von Nordindien!
Anschliesend bestiegen wir einen Indian Airlines Jet und düsten an den Ganges nach Varanasi, das auch noch gut als Benares bekannt ist.
Mit überfüllten Zügen schlugen wir uns von Varanasi nach Agra durch, um das dortige Rote Fort und das weltberühmte Tadsch Mahal zu bewundern.
Gut, und dann waren es nur noch fünf Stunden per Expresszug nach Delhi, wo der Düsenclipper von Air India Charters für den Heimflug nach Europa schon auf uns wartete.
Indien - der zauberhafte und geheimnisvolle Subkontinent Südasiens.
Der Orient im Spiegel - Asien, spannende Abenteuerreisen im Nahen und Fernen Osten.
