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Our guide has a very thick Nepali accent and had great difficulty in pronouncing our names. From the very first day he gave us new Nepali names. Vincent became Bimsen and I became Kalpana. He called us Bimsen and Kalpana the whole way. He also gave us the surname Gurung, which are people from Mongoloid/Tibetan descent living in Nepal.

We were constantly being mistaken for Nepali here, especially as our skin got browner with the daily sunlight. These are pictures of us taken in Manang. Don’t we look Nepali???