Entweder der Organismus stirbt oder er passt sich an!

Either the organims dies or it adapts (Zitat: Alex aus Oldenburg)!
As you may have guessed the organism adapts....juhu! Ingo already wrote a lot about our Circuit. Short Version in English: Great But Exhausting, tourguide was really great, we were 10 people mostly from Britain (I remember the nice dinners with French Fries and Fried Egg), 2 from Belgien, 2 from Canada (60 Years old and always overtaking me uphill) and we 2 Germans. It was a weird feeling standing at 5416 m with the sign saying: Congratulations at Thorung La and see you again! Nope I do not think so! :-)
As the title already implies taking vacation in a developing country offers some difficulties which the body has to handle. A lot of people had several concerns about our health before the start of our trip and gave us many suggestions. So here are some I can think of but there were some the people did not think of:
1. Cold (we should have warm cloth plut the sleeping bag should be in comfort mode -17C) - I can tell you except above 4000m where we slept three times I was sweating - thanks a lot to PSI for that present. In addition, it was suggested that I use good glasses because many children get blind by the increased sun radiation in the mountains - yes can be problem, but since we were hiking so fast we had no time to look into the sun or see the landscape but watching the stones and rocks we were walking on - okay was only the case the last days of our trek. :-)
2. Terrorist/Maoist/Kings: There were troubles but since last year when the Maoist took over nothing happenend so far except that the VISA fee increased a lot.
3. Diseases: Hepatitis, thypus, malaria (should be extinct now in Chitwan National Park) , rabbies (I am more afraid of a Riksha than of a dog), bacteria and virus...yeah a lot of you can die of. In my case I think a cold including the coughing is something not really funny (Julie will probably agree with that). But I never thought that I could get sick of AMS here as well. Not the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer but of the Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) which almost everybody experienced by having headaches. Nevertheless, the tour was planned like that everybody makes it: the 60 year old as well as the 30 year old people. It does not depend on age, on sex or fitness. A german Australian we met (he wants to climb next year the 8000m) said sometimes he got AMS and had to go down and sometimes he did not.
4. Whatelse: You can die by a Yak hitting you on the path or a porter with three heavy bags on his back walking faster uphill with his flipflops than you with your heavy mountain shoes and no backpack.
Thats it for today. Pictures are on the way when the computer is fast and likes DVDs. Salut Silke