Nepal: Post-quake, tourism, trekking and charity connections (CITC?)

[acton28.blog]

Seeing as this topic is open, I'll post here. In a way it is linked. I trekked again in Nepal during January and earlier this month. I went there in 2017 too. Anyway about a week or so ago, there was a tremor, from the 2015 quake. Apparently, they get many each year. I donated some books, a heart from Manchester found its way into a school at a village called Kharikhola and a few City bits made there wasy around the route of my walk. I'm thinking of doing some fundraising with CITC (Classrooms in the Clouds) from Cheshire. The country, and especially the countryside is still in a state of repair as it approaches the 4th anniversary. More will be in my blog soon after I finish writing about Johnny Marr and the first few days in Nepal (this time round).

Does anyone know any current Manchester or City-linked charity with a Nepal connection?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Seeing as this topic is open, I'll post here. In a way it is linked. I trekked again in Nepal during January and earlier this month. I went there in 2017 too. Anyway about a week or so ago, there was a tremor, from the 2015 quake. Apparently, they get many each year. I donated some books, a heart from Manchester found its way into a school at a village called Kharikhola and a few City bits made there wasy around the route of my walk. I'm thinking of doing some fundraising with CITC (Classrooms in the Clouds) from Cheshire. The country, and especially the countryside is still in a state of repair as it approaches the 4th anniversary. More will be in my blog soon after I finish writing about Johnny Marr and the first few days in Nepal (this time round).

Does anyone know any current Manchester or City-linked charity with a Nepal connection?

I think I'm gonna go there in October/November this year. Gonna try and do the Annapurna circuit.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I think I'm gonna go there in October/November this year. Gonna try and do the Annapurna circuit.

Did the Annapurna circuit 25 years ago. I was a bit overweight at the time, so it was fucking hard going. Up and down endless steps cut into the hillside really took it out of my legs, and the Thorong La pass, about 8 or 9 days in, was a bastard (altitude wise), although I’ve read that they’ve changed the route slightly since then. Did it in November 93 in beautiful weather. What made me laugh was that we were in a group of 4 with a guide and 2 Sherpas, who carried all our rucksacks. The sherpas did it in flip flops and virtually ran round! Great experience and would love to do it again, but age and general fitness make it a complete ‘no-no’. If you’ve never done it before, and you’re stopping over in tea houses in the little villages dotted en route each night, eat what the locals eat. Dal bhat, dal bhat and more dal bhat. Have a great time

 

[acton28.blog]

I hear the Manaslu circuit is more remote and spectacular. Everyone that has done the Annapurna circuit in recent years comments on the new ring road being hard to escape it.

Did the Annapurna circuit 25 years ago. I was a bit overweight at the time, so it was fucking hard going. Up and down endless steps cut into the hillside really took it out of my legs, and the Thorong La pass, about 8 or 9 days in, was a bastard (altitude wise), although I’ve read that they’ve changed the route slightly since then. Did it in November 93 in beautiful weather. What made me laugh was that we were in a group of 4 with a guide and 2 Sherpas, who carried all our rucksacks. The sherpas did it in flip flops and virtually ran round! Great experience and would love to do it again, but age and general fitness make it a complete ‘no-no’. If you’ve never done it before, and you’re stopping over in tea houses in the little villages dotted en route each night, eat what the locals eat. Dal bhat, dal bhat and more dal bhat. Have a great time

DAL BHAT POWER 24 HOUR​

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I hear the Manaslu circuit is more remote and spectacular. Everyone that has done the Annapurna circuit in recent years comments on the new ring road being hard to escape it.

DAL BHAT POWER 24 HOUR​

It’s a long time since I was there, but where does the ring road go, and why? There’s nothing up by places like Jonsom and Muktinath. Surely they’ve not built it in the vicinity of the trekking paths. Some feat of engineering if they have, given the terrain......

 

[Indaparkside]

Fucking hell hes got lost coming back from York.

 

[acton28.blog]

It’s a long time since I was there, but where does the ring road go, and why? There’s nothing up by places like Jonsom and Muktinath. Surely they’ve not built it in the vicinity of the trekking paths. Some feat of engineering if they have, given the terrain......

There is a new road from Jiri to Phaplu, and they're adding bits to Lukla now. Massive engineering project but hugely messy. I heard the same is around Annapurna and connects most villages, some hydroelectric plants etc - but is prone to landslides, from loose earth, caused by the 2015 quakes.

Fucking hell hes got lost coming back from York.

I never went to York - as I never had a ticket. Am I the only person to confess that?

 

[BimboBob]

There is a new road from Jiri to Phaplu, and they're adding bits to Lukla now. Massive engineering project but hugely messy. I heard the same is around Annapurna and connects most villages, some hydroelectric plants etc - but is prone to landslides, from loose earth, caused by the 2015 quakes.



I never went to York - as I never had a ticket. Am I the only person to confess that?

Rag ;)

 

[acton28.blog]

Rag ;)

I won't say what I was doing that weekend but I have a fair idea. It certainly had no red connections.

Here's a snippit from a blog I throw my words on.

I'm still looking at charity connections for Nepal though.

 

[acton28.blog]

Coping strategy time. Hoping some words are appreciated by others. I know a few of us have too much free time. These days I only have 15 x 40 minute classes a week to teach online...

Finally, I have got round to my time in Nepal this year. 2020 has been marked as Visit Nepal 2020, a concerted effort by the Nepal government to get overseas and overland visitors to bring their hard-earned money into the country – and experience ever-lasting moments that will tease visitors back time and time again.
https://acton28.blog/2020/03/11/kathmandu2020/

Pokhara is a very spaced out city. It’s relaxed and very green. There is so much to see and do. It is at the top of the league in terms of watching people go by, and enjoying the sounds of birdcalls. Nature is all around you, whether it is kites swooping overhead, tropical birds chirping in the morning or the croak of frogs. Then, there are many friendly and cute dogs, cats and the occasional free-roaming cow ambling along the roadsides.
https://acton28.blog/2020/03/13/pokhara/

Embarking on a journey with beaten muscles is tough. It doesn’t inspire a lengthy trot. The backpack, made by Deuter, had been a secondhand purchase, but it fitted well offering comfort across 55 litres. A zip-on, zip-off daysack sagged from its exterior, making for an odd balancing act but after a few hundred metres it felt part of my super-structure.
https://acton28.blog/2020/03/18/wanderingwonders/

Back to the Nepal trek we go, and the many sounds of the Marsyangdi River. Leaving the cute puppy eyes, and Jagat behind, the first thing we witnessed was a sheep or goat completely cut open.
https://acton28.blog/2020/03/21/manaslu/

The snow pretty much didn’t want to convey me and with every drop my boots, and the best part of my legs disappeared. Out came the crampons. Out came the determination. Onwards I went. My imagination enjoyed the peculiar eerie silence. I imagined packs of wolves, snow leopards and bears watching me go by. Not your ideal range of animals to picture you pass by, especially if one of them was very hungry, but here I was in the territory of nature, and damned if I was going to imagine Minecraft or a rock concert.
https://acton28.blog/2020/03/23/chameleon/

Soon after I would pass a huge apple orchard with discernible damage from storms. Power lines, trees and fencing didn’t just lean over, it littered the scattered exposed earth. The acres of apple trees leaned towards the south in a way a rugby team would crouch in a scrum.
https://acton28.blog/2020/04/04/pisang/