End of a Journey

Day 23 – Saturday, 7th November 2009

We got up very early in the morning to catch our plane to Delhi, where we took a connecting flight to London. The journey was tiring, but fascinating. It’s amazing how you can physically travel from one distant corner of the world to the other in a flash. It’s more difficult to emotionally get used to the idea that you’re once again back home, facing your everyday life. For the next few days after returning from such a long trip you walk like someone numb, without being able to find your own place. You’re happy to be home with all its comforts, but at the same time you miss the adventure, the wonderful places you visited and the lovely people you met. It’s like living in a parallel reality.

My three weeks in Nepal have taught me many important lessons. Lessons about myself, my strengths and weaknesses. I’ve learnt how to appreciate what I’ve got and how to be more humble. I proved myself in the most difficult and strange situations, I was able to adapt to the new reality of demanding physical and mental challenges and to conditions, which I thought would be unbearable for someone not used to these kinds of adventures. But I made it and I am proud of myself. I am also proud that I could see and experience a different world, a world that is slowly fading away, being replaced by modernity and all of its horrors.

Nepal is a wonderful, complex and fascinating country. Its people warm, unpretentious and spiritual. The many colours and images of Nepal and the Himalayas can sometimes overwhelm and outsider, but they will never disappoint. It is a world so different from ours. It is a world, in which you can find peace and in which you can experience the adventure of your life.

Namaste.

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