We are delighted to announce thatt one of the guides that we use on our trekking trips has jointly won the 2006 Wanderlust Magazine Paul Morrison Guide Award .
 
KC Bhuwan is a very special guide who deserved to win this award and we thank all of our clients who supported his nomination.
 
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Our managing Director, Steve Webster, helps to oversee a wonderful project in Kathmandu that homes and educates helplessly poor children from the Himalayan mountain regions. In conjunction with Escape2Nepal we have designed several itineraries that are tailored specifically to enable sponsors and friends to visit Nepal and Bhutan and see the work that we are doing first hand. 

 

The Himalayan Youth Foundation, Inc. (“HYF”) is a private not for profit corporation created to provide assistance and general care to the underprivileged and/or orphaned children of the Himalaya, in an effort to ultimately help the region become as stable and as prosperous as possible.

 

The HYF currently supports two wonderful projects in the Himalaya:  In Nepal, the Kailash Hostel, an educational project for desperately poor children who would not otherwise have the opportunity at a formal education and in Bhutan we support the Choki Traditional Arts School (CTAS), the country's first charitable, privately run, art school that was founded in 1999 by the former head of the Painting Division of Bhutan's National Painting school . CTAS offers free education and housing to poor mountain children. In addition to training in the Bhutanese arts and crafts, CTAS children receive lessons in such fundamentals as math, English and their native language.

Bhutan – Steve has just returned from a 7 day Adventure to Bhutan. What a stunningly beautiful country and lovely people.

 

We have teamed up with a new agent in Bhutan that offers a very personalized service and pays close attention to detail.  The company is also associated the Chowki Traditional Arts School that the Himalayan Youth Foundation, for whom I assist, supports. 

 

The scenery is spectacular and trekking in the untouched forests to hidden temples perched on the side of cliffs etc is a special treat. 

 

Bhutan is not cheap and the government continue to ensure that a minimum per-day rate is charged in the region of US$ 250 per day is charged depending on the group size and time of year.  However, it is worth it and you will be rewarded with stunning unspoilt scenery and wonderful culture.

Hello Steve:
Thank you for your part in making the recent visit to Nepal and Bhutan a memorable and very enjoyable month of April.  The trekking to Annapurna Base Camp, sight seeing around Kathmandu, visits to the HCF hostel and school, visit to your cabin retreat and the trip and visit to CTAS in Bhutan just couldn't have been better.  Each forms the best of memories with some fine people that are tough to top.  Your efforts were just "Top Shelf" in every respect.  When I review the many (almost 800) pictures, I long to return and grow in understanding of your culture and get to know the Nepalese way better. Getting to meet Tsering Dolker made the whole trip worth the effort.  Pasang, at the hostel, and I have been exchanging emails which he reads to Tsering and then sends a reply email.  Some day Tsering will be able to do her own emails.  She appears to be a bright youngster and is growing into her education and role in a modern city, which doesn't happen over night.  I'm comfortable that in several more years in KTM she will have mastered the areas she is now weakest in and be a well rounded and educated young lady.  Her report cards show continual improvement each time that is reassuring and demonstrates her growth. She certainly won my heart-just like my grand children do, and three of the five grandchildren are girls.

 

Again, thank you Steve, and your wonderful wife, for the memorable trip to Nepal and Bhutan.  I'm ready to return!  Warm regards,  Rick Rapson