DIWAS GURUNG: TRAVELING SOLO
Rara Lake at the backdrop. All photos by Diwas Gurung By LB THAPA Diwas Gurung is a 28-year-old young man, and he calls himself a solo traveler. He has already paddled with his mountain bike the entire length and breadth of the country in 42 days. Among others, he has also paddled Ghale Gaon, Sirubari, Lwang Ghalel, Bandipur, Gorkha, Lumbini, Sauraha Chitwan, Dharan, and Ilam, and the list is long. Moreover, Diwas has also paddled from Pokhara to Sikkim with a message to donate blood to save lives. As far as trekking is concerned, he has walked through the entire area of the Annapurna Circuit in 42 days, Annapurna Base Camp in 9 days, and the Guerrilla Trek in 35 days. Perhaps his toughest trek was from Kagbeni, Mustang, to Rara Lake and Jumla in 52 days. During all this trekking, he was all alone. Upper Sera village, East Rukum " Until 2015, even remotely, I had not thought that one day I would spend so much time paddling my mountain bike and trekking all of the popular tr