Jiri is a long way from Kathmandu. We rode for 7 hours and spent the night at Charikot (awful hotel), then the next day wound around the mountains for another 2 hours. It was a beautiful valley. The Switzerland of Nepal. Actually some swiss people wanted to make it into a Swiss resort and cheese factory, but it didn't work like they anticipated. They do have a helicopter pad where things are flown to base camp for Everest. It was a fun adventure and always humbling to see the people who come from long distances and hard circumstances to receive wheelchairs. There was a girl there who did not receive a wheelchair, but had no use of her hands and demonstrated how she could write her name with her toes. People are amazing, what they can do with so little.
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Harvesting the wheat
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Bundling the wheat
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Drying the wheat
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Plowing the fields
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Oxen waiting to work
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Flour Mill. It uses the stream for power
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Stone mill to grind flour. Inside
the building above.
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Cherikot, town we stayed the night at.
Betty A., Mike and Chris Valentine.
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Chris V. and Betty signing in at check station. Have to show
passport and tell where you are going.
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Hospital in Jiri where we held the wheelchair distribution
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Wheelchair recipients and families.
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beautiful Jiri Valley
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feeding his cattle
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| Man carrying his plow to his field |
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