Browsing Archive: May, 2011

Kathmandu

Posted by Nell Rose Phillips on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, In : Nepal 


I awoke this morning at 4:00 AM and hit the streets by 5:00.  I wanted to see what life is like in Kathmandu for ordinary people.  

 

One of the first interesting differences I noticed was the morning delivery of small sacks of coal and the preparation of it for the daily cooking fires at some of the tiny eating establishments.  Men hammer the sacks until the pieces are broken down quite small, and then the coal is fired in large slightly concave iron vessels.  I feel somewhat compelled...


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Journey to Nepal...

Posted by Nell Rose Phillips on Thursday, May 26, 2011, In : Nepal 
Well, the adventure begins.

I'm sitting in San Francisco airport waiting for my first flight. I'm on my way first to Seoul Korea, and then on to Kathmandu, Nepal. Its a long flight and it will take several days to get there.  There is no way to anticipate what adventures might present themselves, but I think I can say with some surety, that it won't be boring.

A number of people have asked me exactly what it is that I am doing, and what I hope to accomplish.  To answer, I must begin by explaini...
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Day 3: The Road to Pokara and the stone steps from Hell:

Posted by Nell Rose Phillips on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, In : Spirituality 

One component of my journey is to travel to various parts of the country to become familiar with both the people and the land they live in so that I might have a better sense of the larger scheme of things.  As a result, part of the trip planned for us by Jimmy Lama who is one of the facilitators of our mission, is to trek into the Himalayas. So we rose early in the morning at the hotel and had a quick breakfast before loading our back packs and ourselves into a van, to venture out on the leg...
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Kathmandu, Nepal Day 1

Posted by Nell Rose Phillips on Friday, May 20, 2011,
I arrived in Kathmandu after a long and exhausting series of flights which took a little over 24 hours.  I flew first to from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where I met up with Chloe, an intern interested in world peace that I selected to accompany us.  Chloe is a student from Saint Mary’s College, and this will be her first experience ever doing anything like this.  Needless to say, Chloe is thrilled.  Following that, Chloe and I flew to Seoul Korea and changed planes to take Korean Airline...
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