News from Nepal - Jiri to Namche

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Nepal Picture by Mark Morin
Travel story: News from Nepal - Jiri to Namche

Nepal is far from Montreal. Excluding stop-over: 6 hours to Los Angeles, 17 hours to Bangkok then 4 hours to Kathmandu adds up to 27 hours worth of leg cramp, and not much sleep.

But before I can start trekking, there's a 10-hour public bus ride to survive, switch-backing for hours as we climb to a high pass then dig-zagging down to a river crossing, only to repeat the cycle over and over again. Other than a ruptured break line and my first meal of dal bhat (more on this... More