Day 1.

NAMASTE!

It's stopped raining...so heavily! Umbrella are still needed but we're not as risk of drowning if we step in a puddle anymore!
After our MASSIVE dinner and breakfast (even Sanchia couldn't have finished it up) we decided it would be a good idea to walk to Durba square. About 5 minutes later we'd already been greeted by about a million nepelese people trying to convince us to get in their rickshaw, buy some weird musical instrument, take photos of them or try to impress us with their wonderful (if not slightly out of date) knowledge of the UK ('Your queen she is Elizabeth, your Prime Minister Gordon Brown) and then tried to make us buy them milk!

About an hour later we finally arrived in Durba Square. We initially turned down the offer of a guide thinking we could manage. About 10 metres later we decided that we actually had no idea what we were looking at and so maybe a guide would be a good idea. Durba square is full of old temples such as the Alcohol God every year they put a pipe in his mouth and strong men wrestle to put their mouths under the pipe to drink some beer. There's also a small fish in the beer which if swallowed, will give that man a lucky life. Ew.
Our guide was especially keen to show us the Karmasutra temple which featured lots of lovely ornate carvings of...well... "you see this women, with 2 friends, the're fisting, you know...and here...is horse karmasutra"..um yes. (pictures to come later!)

We then went and saw a painting workshop where they paint with gold dust! We also saw the temple of the Living Goddess (she's selected when she's 3 and has to fulfill about a million criteria. She's then not allowed to leave her house except when she's carried around 13 times a year and she's not allowed to touch the ground outside until she leaves when she's a young teenager!)

We're now sitting in the internet cafe whilst Vikki reads every single story about the nepalese plane crash and is slightly freaking out! (We're probably going by bus anyway!)

We're now heading back to the hotel where we are due to meet Patemba, our Sherpa in the next 24 hours!

If anyone want to contact us by text, our number is 9779849660422

Right, better go drown in the rain again!

Lots of Love, Millie xxx

(p.s. Well Done Georgina on her results!)

What we're doing...

Namaste!

We're off to Nepal between August 21st and Monday 20th of September. We'll be spending a few days in Nepal before heading of (either by plane or jeep) to Tumlingtar. We'll then be walking with a guide and porters to the village of Yaphu which is a 3 day walk from the nearest road. We'll spend 6 days there during which we'll be teaching English in the village school and visiting the health care centre which Nepal In Need funded.
We'll then walk across to the village of Tamku where we'll be teaching in the village school for 5 days before walking back down to Tumlingtar (another 3 days). We will then have 6 days in Kathmandu and are hoping to do a safari and everest flight!

The Sankhuwasabha region where we'll be teaching

We'll use this blog to post what we've been up too although only whilst we're in Kathmandu (no internet/signal anywhere else!) so there will be a big 2 1/2 week gap in posting! Sorry!

For more info on the charity Nepal in Need visit their website, http://www.nepalinneed.org/ You can also donate to the charity on their JustGiving page http://www.justgiving.com/nepalinneed

Lots of love, Millie & Vikki xxx




p.s. You can email us at MillieVikkiNepal@hotmail.co.uk