15th May

Visited a YWAM project where they make contact with street children and visit in a slum.

Went to the YWAM centre in KTM valley where a number of courses are run.

They have an interesting way of extracting rice from the sheaves. They just lay them on the road and let the cars drive over them.

In the eveing we had a meal with the regional director of YWAM in Nepal and stayed the night with Joel a film actor who had an amazing story to tell.....

Next day we set off for Kalimpong at 4.15am in the dark, after 700km we arrived at 10.15 at night in the dark. And what a journey that was.

Up through the hills of Kathmandu and as the light began to dawn the road became more and more rough until we were travelling along a river bed.

At 11am we came to a stop. A boy had been killed in an accident and the road was closed - they talked about a period of 3 days! The relatives close the road in order to force some financial recompese. So after waiting an hour we took a side road, which became a path, then fell down to a dried up river bed and finally we made our way round. At midday in 39 degrees centigrade we caught our first glimpse of the snow topped himalayan mountains.

Another delay was caused by a "bund" a political strike which closes the road, so once again we took a scenic diversion.