NAMIBIA-NEPAL: Uniting at Backpackers Unite

namibia-nepal

It’s the slogan for Nepal Tourism and I too carried it while I pedaled on the road on 2011- The Nepal Tourism Year. For me, it was a lot of respect and devotion to my country then. Now, after I met Herman Piljoen, those words honor and delight me being a Nepalese Citizen.

Herman is a Namibian. He was interested in Nepal since the times Hippies were all eager to visit Kathmandu- the heaven city. He says “ I thought, I would go one time, be satisfied by a long hike. But, that was just the beginning of the long relationship with Nepal and Nepalese.” The first time he hiked from Jiri to Lukla; second time from Lukla to Everest base camp and third time The Jomsom Trail. Still, in contradiction of belief he’d got during the first time, he is interested in doing the Mustang tour in the fourth visit to Nepal