Nepal - The Himalayas

Left villa angelina hotel at 5 in the morning. I took a cab back to the Legaspi airport before taking the domestic flight back to Manila. I hang around the airport for 45 minutes before taking another flight down to Nepal. Finally, after hours of flying around, I finally reached Nepal, closest country to the foot of Himalayers!:)

Immediately after I landed, I hired a guide to bring me around this new country. I took a bus along with him to the foot of Himalayas. As we were moving to our destination, he told me many interesting facts about Himalayas. He told me that, fold mountains result from the bending and folding of the Earth's crust as tectonic plate collide into each other. When two plates collide, the rock layers or rock strata along the boundary are pushed together or compressed, causing rock strata to buckle and fold. This process is known as folding!(Impressive!!!)


He also told me that the origin of the Himalayas is the impact of the Indian tectonic plate traveling northward at 15 cm per year to impact the Eurasian continent. Its first contact came about 70 million years ago and it is currently still moving! ( Was relatively shocked at this!!!! :O)  The formation of the Himalayan arc peaks eventually resulted from this, since the lighter rock of the seabeds of that time were easily uplifted into mountains. An often-cited fact used to illustrate this process is that the summit of Mount Everest is made of marine limestone!!!!!! The Himalayan mountain is currently the world's highest fold mountain at 8000m(26000feet) and it had risen about 2000m (6600feet) for the past 20000 years and continue to rise at a range of 7.5-10cm (3-4 inches) every year!!(Was amazed at his last few words)


Finally, I have reached the foot of Himalaya!!! Yes!!!! I have always wondered how it looked like in reality. The Himalayer is as beautiful as Mount Mayon that I have just recently visited. I took some pictures of it and bought some souvenir at the shop there. I then walked around the area to explore before having lunch at their native restaurant. They served me their specialty and it was scrumptious. The taste kind of reminded me of Singapore's Hainanese Chicken Rice! Nevertheless, time is getting late and I went back to the airport as I have another flight to catch in the early morning. I thanked my guide and bid farewell to the beautiful country of Nepal!:) 

Hopefully, I will be able to return here again next time!!!:):):)


Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas , Geography Textbook

Some pictures that I took:

Picture of Native village

Picture of Himalaya as I walked towards it!:)

Zoomed view of Himalaya from afar!        
 
Source: http://www.rcdpnepal.org/himalayan_volunteering/images/firstPageHighlight.jpg
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