Hi,
I’m lying in my room now, after a long jeep trip from the airport. We have been accompanied by the manager and another person from the BSP company. That responsible for most of the bio-gas reactors in Nepal. We had a nice stop to had some tea and eat some Samosa. Those are little filled dumpling with meat, We in Israel we have a very similar kind of food we call the Sambosak – I’m sure there is a connection.
Yesterday we had a dinner with a lady that was born and raised in New Zealand, but lives and works in Nepal for over 30 years. She showed us so many problems in doing what we are trying to do. She almost broke down our spirits – And then she ended up the conversation saying she’s optimistic. That made us smile a bit, although we got almost every reason in the world not to be.
After getting to Ilam we met some people from the organization that helps people around here to build bio-gas reactors. It called CNDC and don’t ask what it stands for…
We took our rooms and organized for dinner. We are three boys (Tark, Shon and I), and the worker in hotel asked us if we want singles room, or do we want to sleep together. Mark and I said we don’t care. Tom looked at us and said “You’ll sleep together in the same bed, I want a single bed!”. Tark and I looked at him and start laughing at him together. We were all so tired he couldn’t understand the worker and we couldn’t understand him….
We had dinner, but first they let us drink some Tongba. That’s their alcoholic traditional drink here. It’s made of millets, Raxi (alcohol from rice) and hot water in an high aluminum glass with a straw . It tastes like a very young red wine. You keep fill up the Tongba glass with hot water and the taste is getting better or you just more high. It reminds me the Mate in South America, except it’s alcoholic and you don’t pass it from one to another.
We went to bed after a long pile of rice with extras, and after Bashur (the manager from BSP), made Tark promise to give two lectures in Katmandu when we’ll come back to there….
Take Care
The village of Ilam
Tongba – the local alcohol drink
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