by Gaby | May 1, 2012 | Food, Nepal, Travel
One morning, I offered to cook dinner. In Nepali homes, the guests do not enter the kitchen, so I really didn’t know how this was all going to work out. Our friend, Shree, has a chicken farm and had been telling us that he was going to bring a chicken for...
by Gaby | Apr 27, 2012 | Travel
I take back everything I said about the drive out to the valley. On Tuesday we took the local bus to a nearby city called Besisahar. Besisahar is about a 1½ hour bus ride from Rupakot, and it has an impressive hospital to which the patients in the rural villages...
by Gaby | Apr 27, 2012 | Travel
When the sun sets in the Lamjung Valley, the air becomes still and quiet. When the power is out, as it often is, the stars litter the sky. It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the deep darkness that we so rarely see in the States, but once they do, they...
by Gaby | Apr 27, 2012 | Nepal
As it usually happens when you’re on vacation, the second half of our week in the valley went by too fast. On the morning we left, I remembered back to the first few days when I annoyingly asked my parents why in the world we needed to be here for one whole week. I...
by Gaby | Apr 26, 2012 | Travel
Over the course of our week in Rupakot, we visited many families to gather information for both the school part and the hospital part of Avasar. Seeing the homes that many people live in, the lengths they have to go through to get water, to get to school, to carry...
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