In reply to tehmarks:
I don't mind people having a different opinion to me but when they trot out the exploitation bollocks without even taking a moment to google the facts that irritates me.
Of all the places I have visited Nepal near the top. If I could afford it I would go back there in an instant. I have friends who have served in the Ghurkas, friends who have worked in the export business and the trekking business and friends who have left and gone to America. I have friends out there now helping to re-build infrastructure following the earthquake in 2016.
I worry more that the growing trend to avoid flying will have a more negative impact on the ecconomy than them going off to fight for the British.
As a country they are poor compared to us and going there gave me my first really view of abject poverty. But that aside the average Nepali lives reasonably well because living is cheap. They also one of the people with the strongest work ethic I've known. That's a generalisation obviously, but then when talking of an entire people it is hard not to talk in general terms.