We leave Jhinu in usual style, around 8am. This is the last day of the trek. We lunch at Kyune right on the Modi River. Modi is the Nepali name. Each ethnic group along its way has a different name for it, as happens with all the rivers apparently. The trail has been easy with mainly down and flat. It’s pleasant and the bird life is amazing, as are the trees, flowers and farming life. Oxen plough the fields and mainly women carry manure onto the layered fields for fertilizer. Suddenly we come onto a road and for 3 hours hike along it until we arrive back in Birathati, where we started. We’re both fairly tired now. A taxi meets us and takes us back to Pokhara. In the way the taxi driver invites me to his nephews Hindu wedding tomorrow.
We arrive at Hitel Buttercup and Ganesh unloads my luggage and heads off. We will meet for a final dinner.
Garnesh meets me around 5.45pm and we walk to a restaurant. Finally he joins me for a few beers and we have fine food and fun. He walks me back and we say farewell but I will meet him again in Kathmandu. It’s been a fantastic trek and he has been an awesome guide and friend.
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