Trekking through the Himalayas has undoubtedly been a highlight of my life. The mountains and scenery are picturesque and the culture still relatively untouched by the western world. It is the type of holiday that afterwards when you come home, you have a sense of achievement for what you have accomplished. It isn’t just sightseeing and posing for photos; trekking is tough.
But one of my favourite parts of trekking through the Himalayas is that it allowed me to interact with the local Sherpa people and gave me an insight into their daily lives. The people are hospitable and when you pass them on the road they give you the common greeting “Namaste”. For me, the adorable Nepalese children were a highlight. The children seem to like trekkers a lot as most children my group saw waved and said hello as we passed through their villages.
One charming moment I experienced was on the second day of my trek when my group stopped for a break in a village. These two little kids from the village came running up to our group and started chatting away in Nepalese to us. We had no idea what they were saying so my group tried to say hello to the little kids in both Nepalese and English but we received no response or reaction from that. I was sitting on a rock and the kids came up to me and started hitting my backpack softly with some leaves they were carrying. None of my group knew what the kids were up to, we all just thought the little kids were cute. I should mention at this point that along the trek most trekkers buy chocolate bars as snacks to eat during the day. So anyway, One of the kids was looking at me, talking away and then in the middle of a sentence of Nepalese I hear the kid say ‘chocolate’. My whole group started laughing, the kids didn’t know how to say hello but chocolate they had down packed. I had one Twix bar left in my bag so I pulled that out and broke it in half for the two kids to share. Didn’t need to offer the chocolate to the kids, they snatched the chocolate out of my hand the second I had split it and ran back to their house yelling out something in Nepalese. So I found out that cheeky kids are everywhere, even in extremely remote areas such as the Himalayas!
We spent a while laughing about the kids cheekiness after they ran off, they must try to get chocolate off every tourist that comes through their town. I’m sure the kids are successful more times than not, I instantly caved to their cuteness!
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Cute!
Such a lovely story, those kids sound super cute!
I was on Otres Beach in Cambodia and ended up spending the afternoon picking shellfish with some Khmer children and it was the best, even with the language barriers and cultural differences children are the same all over the world and retain the same cheekiness and innocence. It’s so great!
I know what you mean, kids laughter is the same in every language, so lovely
That reminds me of when Cady Harron in Mean Girls says she likes math because it’s the same in every language…But yeah you’re right it really is and it’s so lovely! So are you still travelling and how long for?
Haha i suppose its better in life is to be a lot like cady and not like Lindsay lohan. I’m not travelling at the moment, was overseas at the start of the year and planning on doing some travelling in a few months time, should be good! Are you currently travelling?
Yeah I think that’s definitely true haha, only Lindsay does look like she has a good time!
No I’m not at the moment, I was last year and I am saving at the moment to go next year for a couple of years (until I miss home too much)..It’s so addictive so i’ve decided to save so that I can go for a ridiculously long time in order to try and get it out of my system or make a career out of it!
Where are you planning on going in a few months?
Probably going back to nepal, going to attempt to make it to mt everest base camp! Where are you planning on travelling?
I know for certain i’m going to go to Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Burma and Nepal but after that I haven’t decided. I would LOVE to do base camp, seriously it’s one of my dreams!
How much and how long is the climb for that?
Also getting into Nepal, did you have any problems on the border? I met a woman in Siem Reap who said she was declined entry because she was not in a group of people from her own country!?
They all sound like great places, would love to go there sometime myself sometime in a few years!
The trek to everest base camp is about 14 days and costs between $1000 – $2000 not including flights, don’t quite me on that thought because I’m not too sure!
Oh that’s odd, I’ve never hear of anyone being refused entry to nepal. How annoying for her to have her holiday ruined!
Lovely post…Himalayas is beautiful..you cant get enuff of it..
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Thank you, yes the Himalayas are great! I see you’ve had some awesome travels too, hope you enjoyed
Love this!!! Travelling to Nepal and through the Himalayas has always been a dream of mine 🙂
You should go! Amazing trip
Thanks for the follow! Nepal is on my list of to travels, looks amazing!!!