Day 3: Across borders

It hardly took us 30 minutes to reach the border from the hotel, I never realized we were so close to India! At the Nepali Immigration we got down from the jeep; thaana, ashish, Chakre’, Rashmi and I… we were going to walk across… Nepal and India sharing an open border save for me n thaana no one else had to go through it… so the rest of the group went on ahead…

Ashish, thaana, Chakre and I found ourselves crossing a border not more than 2 years after we crossed the Nepal-China border together… during our first year field; we were sent to a village along Arniko highway… it took the ten of us (ashish, chakre’, subash, abhishek, sanjay, mishrey, anil, hosim, thaana and I) almost 7 hours (on the top of the bus) to reach tatopani; the town at the border. Here we were together again, except for sanjay… we miss you sanjay and we’d also miss the strum of your guitar ;)

It still amazes me sometimes to see how close we’ve become even though we are from different countries with different cultures…

as we walked through the gate into India we came across a sardar with a colourful turbine around his head and language changed from Nepali to Hindi in just a matter of minutes; yes, we were definitely in india!!