Porterguides Prem and Maina Rai - the perfect family business
Prem was already recommended by a German some yerars ago to my site. As he is a friend of Bachan. I met him in 2005 when we just had finished our Manaslu tour. When I wanted to go for a Annapurna trek in September 2007 neither Bachan nor Bir could go with me and I remembered this nice guy. Well I was not disappointed. Prem was very helpful and a perfect companion. Based in Pokhara he knows all Annapurna area including Tilicho lake. He showed me Ice lake and Milarepa cave near Braga. Prem knows the short-cut trail from Muktinath directly to Kagbeni over the little village of Jhong and Puttak avoiding the motorway. He knows also Everest area. Prem not only carried a heavy part of my luggage but was also a perfect photo assistant, having always the tripod at hand or lenses it needed.
I back from 4 week trekking tour I met his lovely wife Maina at his home. Maina worked several years a guide or porterguide for the well known 3 sisters trekking agency. She has many certificates for training courses and also knows the whole Annapurna area very well. She can carry up to 15 kg.
Prem and Maina have also a Massage salon in lakeside. In March 2008 I took my mother with her 78 years to Kathmandu and Pokhara. She got 3 Massages from Maina and felt at least 5 years younger. According to my mother, Mainas massages were much better than any she got in Germany.
In March 2008 German Jakob Flechtmann went with Prem for 4 weeks to remote village in eastern Nepal where Prem is coming from. so they could visit many of his Rai relatives and it must have been an unforgetable trek!
Andrees de Ruiter testimonial:
In 2008 i went with my 78 lod mother to Pokhara and visited Prem and Maina. In the pevious years I had been trekking with Prem and therfore knew about his dedication to massage and that he has with his wife Maina a massagesaloon.
So my climbed the stairs up to the massage center an maina made the first massa...ge. My mother was perfectly happy and repeated many times that this was the best massage she had in her whole life and much better than the massages in Germany. Well she returned many times and hafter a week she looked 10 years younger and but also felt so.
For me the most impressive thing was that she could move again her former stfif fingers much better and this healing effect is still lasting.
This year we will return again in December and already since months my mother is dreaming to see Maina again and looks forward for new massages by wonderful Maina. So i can really aprouve that Prem and MAina's massage center is bearing rightly the name "Stairway to Haven"
In 2008 i went with my 78 lod mother to Pokhara and visited Prem and Maina. In the pevious years I had been trekking with Prem and therfore knew about his dedication to massage and that he has with his wife Maina a massagesaloon.
So my climbed the stairs up to the massage center an maina made the first massa...ge. My mother was perfectly happy and repeated many times that this was the best massage she had in her whole life and much better than the massages in Germany. Well she returned many times and hafter a week she looked 10 years younger and but also felt so.
For me the most impressive thing was that she could move again her former stfif fingers much better and this healing effect is still lasting.
This year we will return again in December and already since months my mother is dreaming to see Maina again and looks forward for new massages by wonderful Maina. So i can really aprouve that Prem and MAina's massage center is bearing rightly the name "Stairway to Haven"
Ich (Andrées) bin im September / Oktober 2006 selber mit Prem Rai 25 Tage im Annapurnagebiet unterwegs gewesen und war darüber sehr glücklich. Prem war ein sehr interessanter und interessierter Gesprächspartner und hat gerne über 15 kg für mich getragen. Dabei war er immer umsichtig für mich da ohne je aufdringlich zu sein. Er war auch ein perfekter Fotoassistent und hatte immer das große Stativ sofort zur Hand wenn ich auch nur etwas eckig durch die Gegend kuckte. Und zu zweit haben wir schnell und konzentriert die Objektive meiner Panoramakamera gewechselt. Prem kennt nicht nur die Gegend sehr gut sondern interessiert sich auch für Flora und Fauna. Ich kann ihn wärmstens als Porterguide empfehlen. Prem ist geprüfter Guide. Andrées
Jakob Flechtmann schrieb: "Ich war im Frühjahr sechs Wochen lang mit Prem unterwegs, auf der Annapurna Runde und in Ost-Nepal. Schon nach kurzer Zeit fühlten wir uns wie Brüder und hatten eine sehr schöne Zeit. Ich habe Prem stets gut gelaunt, um mein Wohlergehen besorgt und an allem interessiert erlebt. Er kann einem viele Dinge über Land, Leute und die Natur erzählen. Sein Englisch ist gut. War ich nach anstrengenden Märschen allzu strapaziert, massierte er mich zu alle dem auch noch fantastisch. Wenn ich das nächste Mal nach Nepal fliege, werde ich auf jeden Fall wieder mit ihm wandern. Jakob"
Prems Frau Maina hat mehrere Jahre für die Agentur 3 Sisters als Guide/Porterguide gearbeitet . Sie kennt deshalb die Annapurnagegend sehr gut und kann 10-15 kg tragen. Ich habe sie bei Prem kennen gelernt und finde sie sehr sympathisch.
Prem und Maina haben in Pokhara auch einen kleinen Massagesalon. Als ich im März 2008 mit meiner 78 jährigen Mutter in Pokhara war, hat sie sich 3 mal von Maina massieren lassen und fühlte sich danach um Jahre jünger. Sie sagt, dass sie noch nie in Deutschland so gute Massagen bekommen hätte. Eine Wegbeschreibung finden sie auf http://www.nepal-dia .de/Nepal_Reisebericht_Annapurnaru/BB_Pokhara/Massage_in_Pokhara/massage_in_pokhara.html oder http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/profile.php?id=100001474755575
Andrees de Ruiter, living in Germany
E-mail: namaste@nepal-dia.de
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