Over 10 years of warm hospitality
ABOUT US
the idea
The idea was to help sick people from rural Nepal.
Because most hospitals in Nepal are centered in Kathmandu, most patients from all over Nepal have to travel to Kathmandu for treatment. Many of them are even compelled to sleep on hospital floors because they have no money or shelter in the city. Parts of the profits from our trips helps a local NGO - called BAS - which provides free food and shelter to patients from rural Nepal.
( https://www.basinsweden.org/2015/12/mc-resa-i-nepal-2015/ )
Rita founded BAS is 2001 to help sick and poor patients from rural Nepal coming to hospitals in Kathmandu for treatment. She provided free food and accommodation (beds) in a small flat she rented. As the demand for beds was rising, the flat could not accommodate enough people. As such, many people got together and helped BAS in building its own shelter home through raising funds, selling spices, selling bags made by women at BAS etc. One of the big and sustainable ideas pioneered by a Swedish rider (Bjorn Carlsson) was to run MC-Trips. Over the years it has been greatly successful and our family has grown exponentially.
the execution
Bjorn Carlsson, the brains behind our company, found out about BAS and came to Nepal. Here he met Ramesh Kharel and Rita Kharel - the power couple and the heart of the company. Together, they started sharing stories and travel diaries. One thing led to another and voila - they thought of trying to organize some MC-Trips in Nepal. Ramesh would look after the organization and management and Bjorn would try to find riders!
The Round Nepal Trip (popular as the Green Mountains Trip) was the first trip that was ever planned. Bjorn and family Kharel sat down with a map, looked at roads, discussed routes and came up with a beautiful 13 days plan. Soon, they piloted it with some interested riders and it turned out to become a huge hit. Bjorn had oriented everyone properly, Ramesh had done excellent work organizing the trip here and Rita’s hospitality made the trip so much fun.
Rita's ‘fruit and coffee basket’ brought the group closer together with so much joy and fun - and the riders loved it!