Reports - Nepal

New people, interesting acquaintances, new cities and locations - all this is for me the most valuable experience, which I want to repeat again and again. Now I sigh near the laptop, looking out the window, and I hope to snatch a piece of the next vacation and again to go somewhere to the mountains. Very useful for office plankton, like me :)

This morning, I first saw the snow tops of the Himalayas! I do not even know how to explain this. My boys, waking up much earlier, already rushed around the perimeter with cameras and captured the beauty. To enjoy and absorb the types of "in themselves" they have already managed. I just stood and watched. I did not even remember the camera. The sun was rising. The tops are clearly visible and shine with impossible colors! In general, I think, words can not be conveyed, even with a maximum stock of epithets! Emotions are off scale ... It's just necessary to see, feel, absorb and remember all life!

Our trekking in Nepal started somewhere in the afternoon, closer to the afternoon. In no way frightened, in anticipation of the most interesting, we boldly walked along the path. The paths at that time seemed to me directly paved sidewalks, unlike the Crimean routes. They stayed like this for most of the way - they were carefully paved with stones, knocked down in some places, but as a whole it was very convenient.

We got to the point of our start. It's an unremarkable place with a couple of signposts and a trampled down path. A small company of Nepalese children gathered at the trail, they offered to take bamboo sticks on the road for convenience, not hesitating and looking at us with special curiosity. We stopped, adjusted our backpacks, took out our tracking sticks, took a deep breath and moved up the path, each with his own thoughts and expectations from the coming.

We bought everything we needed to travel. My advice to you, if you have something missing from the field outfit, it's easier to buy it on the spot. The only thing that really is not worth buying here is shoes. It is worth it indecently cheap, but still a fake, and if the torn pocket from the jacket is still nothing, but the fallen sole from the boot in the hike is already a disaster!

Do not be intimidated by the meeting with Nepal and the first impressions! Even if you re-read the stories of seasoned travelers, review photos, movies, you will still be in shock. You will look at everything around the eyes of a typical urban European. You will be frightened by the local color and chaos. Most likely this is not at all what you expected, going on a trip. Think for a moment, stop, look around. Here is an amazing atmosphere, here - its little life. Discard prejudices and negative emotions. Leave the "comfort zone" and boldly step forward to meet Nepal! I did exactly so, and, as a particularly impressionable person, I quietly fared and rejoiced. If everything works out, you will like it and will not want to return.

A five-hour flight and here we breathe in the air of Nepal. The airport is very small and very large queue of tourists for obtaining Nepalese visa. Several completed questionnaires in a simple form, a couple of photos (absolutely any - if only your face was) 25 American dollars and voila! We are absolutely legal tourists on the expanses of Nepal, however, only for 15 days.

Himalayas. It's more tempting and I know, but for some reason the peaks of the eight-thousandths seemed to me somewhere in China, in extreme cases - in India, but not in Nepal (here it is a five by geography). In addition, I knew only the geographical name of Everest and everything - as the highest point of the world of everything.

And here I felt what I was here for so long! Because the beauty that opened up to my eyes is difficult to convey. Night, dark earth, sky, stars, snowy tops of mountains, understanding that you are surrounded by the highest mountains in the world! Being so far from all the usual and ordinary that surrounds you in ordinary life, looking into this sky, you think about eternity...

I want to advise this trip to those people who want to not just idly spend time and enjoy the views from the window of the tourist bus, but to those who want to see the country from the inside, communicating with ordinary people, measuring it with their steps with a backpack behind them. Every trip to the mountains and their conquest is not only taking the top, it's also a victory over yourself and testing yourself for strength!