Camilla Minge Strand experienced a Nepal holiday recently that clearly shows you don’t have to be an adventure travel enthusiast to enjoy Nepal.
Recently Nilla and I were in Peru where we meet up with a beautiful lady called Camilla.
During one of our conversations Camilla shared her Nepal Holiday experience.
Camilla was very fortunate to take some extraordinary photo’s of Eagles.
She claimed the photos was good enough for National Geographic, now you can be the judge.
I asked if she would mind sharing a couple with you…along with how she was feeling at the time.
Camilla has generously shared her travel experience from Nepal with us.
Namaste
In the Right Place At The Right Time.
At an early age I started searching for important answers in my life.
The older I got, the more impatient I got by finding more questions than answers.
Even when hitting some dead end tracks I was able to learn and boost my self-confidence and gain greater trust in my abilities.
A few times I had looked for places to learn meditation, read books, and followed it’s “Easy step by step” CDs, only to find a noisy mind and loose the feeling of my legs.
My spiritual journey took me to Nepal.
It was a masterfully planned trip to connect, elevate and energize us in order to better function on heights up to 5500 m.
Perhaps you can relate as I am constantly finding more people like myself or more I find myself more like others.
I was totally unprepared for Kathmandu city.
I would describe this city as having brought Mumbai up in the mountains.
The dirt, the cold, the barely clothed children made me sad and homesick.
I saw a lot of desperation OM was sold and not a part of peoples lives.
This was the Nepal I had come to see! In every room at the resort there was panoramic windows, which allowed you to follow the light moving over the chain of mountaintops.
Even though I was visiting during wintertime and it was freezing cold I could not justify eating any of my meals indoors.
My Olympus and I sat on the balcony spying for a good shot.
Every minute the landscape looked different pending on where the landscape got lit up by the sun or shaded by the clouds.
It was so beautiful.
There was a group of three to four eagles that were gliding fairly close, while 30 something was further away hunting around the forest grounds.
I was following them with my lens just admiring their beauty, I felt so connected to them and in sync with mother earth and the ecology of life.
I was counting my blessings in meditation, learning to open up to all multi faceted events of life.
Such a powerful moment for me!
In such a grand environment it’s impossible not to get touch and connected to the majesty of nature and what mother earth is providing for us all.
I love to observe life and feel blessed whenever I am able to see the beauty of ongoing life.
It makes me feel connected and in the right place at the right time.
Have you ever wished you could just get on a flight and instantly fall asleep until you arrive at your destination?
I have and that is exactly what happened to Nilla and I.
The only problem was we were still 4 filghts away from Macchu Picchu in Peru but at least one leg of our journey was very quick as we slept.
Day 3 dawned for us somewhere about 40 mins before we landed at Brisbane airport.
I jokingly tell people that our Qantas Captain must of been on “L” Plates as we seemed to hit every pot hole on our way across Australia. I am not even sure if they served supper as it was so bumpy.
We had 2 hours in Brisbane then we were off to Sydney.
Once I was seated and buckled in I immediately fell asleep. In fact I do not even remember the take off. Sleep was all that was on my mind. I smiled when I awoke and realised that my seat was still upright. What a waste as I was in business class and for the second flight in a row I had not even had seen the meal service.
Oh how I wish I could sleep for 12 hours which is how long our flight from Sydney to Buneos Aires was going to be!!!
Check out my short video update below. And stay tuned to learn what the Sydney harbour Bridge looks like directly from underneath.
This day was particularly difficult and very tiring for 2 reasons:
We had only had 3.5 hours sleep before driving the 5 hours to Perth.
Secondly, we were on day 4 of a vegetarian diet in preparation for our Peru experience.
Imagine being a keen meat eater and then going to a food and wine show unable to partake in the abundance of food and wine on offer.
I still wonder how I got through that!!!
Now in case you are asking what was I doing there in the first place if I could not enjoy the many wonderful delights on offer. That’s a fair question and the answer is that we had booked this long before we had booked our trip to Peru.
Tonight we are on a Qantas flight to Brisbane and then onto Sydney where we will stay for 2 days before connecting onto Lima via Buenos Aires.
Stay tuned especially if you would to see the Sydney harbour bridge from the bottom up.
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There are many tours planned with the first being to my homeland Italy in May 2010, this journey encompasses all of my passions which I would love to share with you, walking, cooking, culture, people, scenery and history.
We commence this Gourmet Walking journey in Florence staying in a villa just outside of San Gimigiano, walk amongst the vineyards and olive groves, learn how to cook a Tuscan feast, then we walk the Amalfi coast and attend a cooking school in Sorrento for 6 days where we will learn how to make Limoncello...
If you would like to know more about this trip to Italy, visit here
