Re: Niger & Russian coup
I spent two weeks in Nepal, about 3days in Katmandu the rest hiking in the foothill of K2, I went with the intentions of hiking in the foothills of Everest, but the monsoons ran late that year and Everest was off limits. My buddy and I hired a guide and 2 porters and took off. It came with tents and one of the porters doubled as a cook and raw products, food stuffs, were bought in the villages as we went through and cooked where we camped for the night. We had to make between Ten and fifteen miles a day. doesn't sound like much, but we were in the Himalayas, end the elevation Knocked you back. The people in the villages we went through were very friendly, the small homes were poor, but the villages were clean, as were the people. There was always bottled water available, and we would only eat cooked food. neither of us got sick and basicly we were living off the local economy,
Katmandu was clean, no modern building other than a couple of the hotels, friendly people, never saw a begger in Nepal, no garbage or dead bodies in the street. Nepal is India's next-door neighbor, as poor as India, but different as day and night. Maybe it's part of their religion, Buddhism vs Hindu?
Cheers, Rodney
Rodney David Richard Mills
R602188 Gravesend