The population of Kathmandu has double or tripled in the last 10 years. So it's busy, noisy and the traffic is worse than the "s" curves at rush hour. We have met some great groups including NYOF yesteday afternoon. The founder, Olga Murray, spends 7 months a year nurturing the children she's rescued from the streets.
We left Kathmandu at 5am today to avoid a road strike by the street vendors unions (apparently everything is unionizing here) and headed west then south to the Chitwan region. We spent the better part of the day with Sahamati, Ram Pokrel's (iLeap Fellow) group. They have a complex of buildings and work with more than 1000 women's groups, cooperatives and local NGOs.
We arrived in Chitwan National Park in time to walk to the river and enjoy a beer at sunset. Rumor is we're riding elephants at 7:30am then driving 2 and 1/2 hours to the Bara region to visit our first LEI project. Dibya and Meera (LEI project managers in Nepal) have been incredible hosts and have made all the arrangements for the remainder of the Pangea trip.
Namaste!
Linda
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