We did not know how to manage and where to go in the huge range of the nepalese mountains until we found „Sherpa Khumbila Adventures“ (ska-adventures), run by Tsering and Nima.
They were really helpful to design a very personal trip for me (70 years) and my wife (68 years) inquiring in advance thoroughly about our physical abilities and interests. In the end the trip turned out to match perfectly with our needs.
From the moment of our arrival in Kathmandu the Company SKA really „spoiled“ us. They took care of everything, from getting us from and to the airports, from checking our equipment, to handing us a hand sanitizer, to taking a picture of the tag for the baggage we stored in the hotel just in case we lose the tag (what happened indeed).
Lukla was the starting point of our trekking tour through Khumbu district. Their Guide Pasang and Porter Ashram took over, caring for us in a very friendly, almost loving way. I am a very slow walker, but I was never told to hurry up. Pasang explained many details about Sherpa culture and history to us. Good-natured as he is I could ask him a „thousand" times for the names of the surrounding mountains which I could not remember. He also showed us to several monasteries on our way and told us about the iconography. His sharp eyes detected hidden animals in the bushes such as musk deer, Himalayan thar and the glossy pheasant. In three words: fun, pleasure and enlightenment.
At the end of our trekking tour it was not possible to fly directly back to Kathmandu because of the weather conditions. Yet Tsering came along with a driver to fetch us from Manthali Airport, which meant for him a five hours drive in each direction. Back in Kathmandu he fulfilled our remaining sight-seeing wish: he guided us through Boudhanath and took us -together with Nima- to local places for lunch and dinner, where we talked not only about kitchen recipes, but also about "god and world“. It felt regretful when we had to leave these kind and warm people and travel back home. If Nepal weren’t so far from our home we would go there at least twice a year.