When I researched on adventures in Nepal, I was at first a bit hesitant to do one of the many treks offered as I thought I was not physically fit enough to do one. One would have thought, growing up in Switzerland would make me a hiking / trekking fanatic....
Either I will be hospitalised for about 5 days where I will get antibiotics intravenously or we try the oral method first and if this does not work we proceed to the IV option....
One song is stuck in my head for a long time – I don't understand the words but the music is beautiful. I can just feel the emotion in the way the words are pronounced even if I don't understand a word....
The stones sink into the water never to be seen again and Ganesh suggests to take off our socks and shoes and to cross the river barefoot rolling up our trousers up to our knees....
The drops to the right of us are frightening. One wrong turn and all of us would not survive the steep fall. We giggle and laugh as we are all being pulled off our seats once in while....
Then you doze for another 2 trying to ignore the fact that you need to go to the loo but you are dreading to unzip the sleeping bag to waddle out into the cold to the toilet (hoping not to wake up everyone around you – the walls and doors...
Like the Tibetan prayer flags, we are united and representing our individual elements – all of them different but none existent without the other....
So I kept pushing. Placed one foot after another for hours on end, everyday. At some point I was in such a daze, I did not even know for how long we had walked. Ben would speak to me about stuff he had talked with me the evening before and...
The germanic directness does not make any halt in jokes – a reason why I have had a lot of shocked faces stare back at me way too many times back in London. ...
Ganesh, our guide, explained yesterday that we would have to start drinking between 3-4 litres per day which is a real challenge for me as I have always been someone not to drink enough – if I manage to drink 1l per day, I had a good day....