Daniela

My name is Daniela, a 26-year-old woman from the south of Sweden. In 2018 I completed my third semester with Kulturstudier. It started back in 2015. By then I had been traveling around the world since I graduated high school and I was not ready to settle down and leave my backpacking days behind.

I was searching the web for a solution when I came across Kulturstudier. To me, it was ideal! I decided to combine a semester in Buenos Aires (where I took environmental philosophy and Spanish) with a long-term discovery of the American continent.

I backpacked for 6 months before the semester and around 5 months after. These were some of the best times of my life! After that I spent a year on a sailboat cruising around the Mediterranean and the Caribbean saving up for my next year of studies.

I finished Global Environmental Studies in Ghana and then Peace and Conflict in Nepal. Africa was a dream come true to me! And Nepal was a sweet return since I spent 3 months here at a previous time volunteering and meditating.

Nepal is a very interesting place to be in right now, stuck between two super powers like China and India, and with such a young government, it is struggling to be more self-sufficient and independent.

We are witnessing the environmental and political challenges Nepal is facing from the ground level, which provides us a very different perspective from the one portrayed in the media.

Nepal is the ideal place to be in for peace and conflict studies, the culture itself creates a peaceful atmosphere and the fact that it had a civil war not so long ago, makes it a great source of knowledge in the field.

With that said, I hope you will get inspired to explore Nepal by our stories and photos!