Nepal is one of the most beautiful countries I have yet been to. And right now I am planning on going back. The culture is way cool. If India and China mated, its baby would be Nepal. Nepal has this mix of Hindu and Tibetan culture, and even the people look like a mix of Indians and Chinese.
The roads are rarely paved, and when they are they are covered with potholes. So whenever you take a bus it is like going on a rollarcoaster. your head hits the ceiling and body flings foreward against the seat in front of you. And it doesnt help when a nepali is standing over you, with his armpit in your face, and another nepali on the floor grabbing your leg.
The mountain culture is sweet. It kinda makes me want to live in the mountains and start a bed and breakfast that only trekkers can get up to.
Me and Pheebs.
Early morning view of the mountains.
Cool bridge with prayer flags.
Small Buddhist shrine high up in the Nepal Himalaya, about 4600 meters up.
The Tea house we stayed at at Gosainkund lake. In Nepal you can trek from tea house to tea house, where the family that lives there houses you and cooks you food for a small sum. These families are the ultimate of badasses. Since their are no roads up there, they trek all their supplies up thousands of ft. So all the food and all the supplies was carried up here by badass sherpas.
Gosainkund lake. A glacier lake where pilgrims, Hindu and Buddhist, come to bathe...and it is freeeeeezzzzing. though this place seems amazingly beautiful, both of us got altitude sickness and after a night up here had to descend.
Sunset at Gosainkund.
Prayer flags and Gosainkund.
Trekking through some grassy tunnels.
Nepali village. You can see tons of rice patties along the steep hillside. From afar it looks like the whole mountain is melting...kinda cool.
Little children carry heavy loads up through the Himalaya, probably close to 50lbs.
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