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grey village In late 2013 we ventured off the tourist trail, and to the small village of Grey. This has a spectacular setting, with steeply terraced hills where the locals grow their rice. The people were so welcoming, but as their village does not see any tourists, it is severly under-resourced. It was Desain school holidays when we visited, but one of the local teachers was kind enough to show us through the school buildings. We handed out some balloons to the local children, and watch as they played happily, with the backdrop of the lower Himalaya behind them. Read more	Gatlang School gets new equipment	Village Improvements and Goals We have started helping out with improvements to one school, with our aim being to spread this work out to other schools in the region, and then hopefully, with your help, to other regions that do not attract so many tourists. It will always be our goal to work with the locals, so as to find out their true needs, and then try to help them be reached. We do not consider this to be a charity in any way, but rather, in the spirit of humanity, for us to repay the generosity of our hosts by contributing to the education of their children. Read more
Local Friends One of the best things of travel is the people that you meet and the life's lessons you learn. In our years of coming to the Himalaya we have met and worked with some truly wonderful people. Some started off as being aquaintances but have ended up as our very good friends. A part of us feels very sad when we leave after each visit, but it is for them that we keep on coming back. Come over to help usand make some new friends too.	People of the Himalaya	Himalayan images