Nepali | M.I.C.H.A.E.L.A

By now, you aren’t just a guest on Sherpa’s house where people have first mistaken you as Nepalese or Chinese. 😁😁😁

You aren’t even just a mere tourist in a foreign land whose few intentions are to chase beautiful landscapes (e.g Darjeeling, Rishekish), to different witness customs and taste their cuisines.

Instead, you are learner – a student perhaps whose teachers are those local people you get to talk for non-stop in few hours. You learn that these people used to live in an area where a transportation is unavailable. Thus, walking by foot, sometimes in a snow, for nearly 24 hours or even days becomes normal. See? You will never see “walking for hours” the same way again.

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Another great story will be the author of this book, who spent nearly 35 years to publish a book which captures the lives of sharwas- including the great mountaineers of Mt. Everest and of Buddhism. Now you can “quitely” identify which households are practicing Buddhism by merely looking at the flags at their rooftops (thanks to Papchis) 😀😀😀

How beautiful and more meaningful your travels will be, if only you get to spare aome of your time talking to a trusted locals. Nothing beats the stories of the olds. 😄😄😄