Village visits

one of the less attractive bridges to cross.

sharing the highway with the local traffic

one of the new metal bridges installed after floods destroyed the old wooden ones.

the path to the hills. and an interesting irrigation channel to the right. there are lots of NGO activity in the valley to varying degrees of success.

Hi all,

we are back from our trek to some of the most remote community in the Nawalparasi district of Nepal (thats where we are based...). it was a brilliant but tiring trek up the mountain before conducting community discussions (with translators as our Nepali isnt much cop!). We stayed with some very friendly villagers, and even shared a room on the second night with a chicken laying eggs! the food was interesting... i chewed on a chickens foot before ellie kindly pointed out that there would be no meat found (it was a cooked chicken i didnt just pick up a random passing chicken and start chewing)!. I also had a cockerals head in my lunch with a nice eyeball staring right back at me whilst eating! I think ellie found out some useful information for her research, its difficult to tell until you return to the UK and properly look at what you found out. anyways, enough of the chatter, ill add some photos now!