Well, she's trekking, somewhere in Nepal. And out of mobile contact, one assumes....
She didn't seem to know much about the program, save that she was going with 9 others, was setting off from Katmandu, and trekking direct from there, to somewhere North, and staying in Tea Houses, not tents.
I did confirm, though, that she was not flying to Pokhara, and thence to the Annapurna Base Camp, as I did in 1995. Her trek was taking off direct out of Katmandu.
She left on the 2nd February, and now it's the 17th.... I thought she was only going to be away for 10 days. Oh well....
The last I heard from her, was when she sent the photos below from Katmandu on the 5th Feb. Of which she just said, by SMS: "very dusty".... And was heading off to a backpacker's restaurant.
I wonder if she'll like Nepali food, which as I recall was pretty much potatoes and lentils, with the occasional buffalo meat and rice.
I note, by the way, that they've started growing coffee in the Nepali foothills.
Anyway, the photos reminded me of the Katmandu I saw in 1974 on the way back to Oz from the UK, after our epic cross-Asia car trip, and then in 1995 when I trekked to Annapurna base camp. By that timing, seems I'm about due for another visit, as yet another (nearly) 20 years have flown by between '95 and now....
Talking to Mutti this morning: she, Anne and Bub heading off to New Zealand at the end of the month, luck sods!....
Here they are, Jing's caption-less iPhone photos of Katmandu:
