We decide to have a rest day today and stay another night here. Balkrishna and his wife are so generous and happy to have us here. Balkrishna is 57 and just recently retired from being headmaster at one of the schools here. They have a beautiful home and barn with goats and ox.
Balkrishna takes us for a walk around the village. We visit a few houses with hives. The landscape here is typically mountainous and we are high up. It’s pleasantly cool and of course the views are immense. It’s home for lunch then another short walk in the afternoon. We meet three of Balkrisna’s brothers who live here in the village. He has five brothers and had three sisters. One has passed away. I get nice photos of brothers with their mother. There are long sessions of Nepalese speak and they apologies to me for that. I don’t care. I fell comfortable being there listening to them despite not understanding a word there are saying.
We had planned to catch a jeep bus back to Sandhikharka to then bus overnight to Kathmandu. So I had left my backpack there, to pick up again on our way through. But now we think it would be nice to go via Pokhara. This means getting my back pack delivered to here via the jeep bus. Dipak and Balkrishna work hard on the phone to contact the relevant people for this to happen. It doesn’t look good and we won’t know if we’ve succeeded into midnight. Yes the jeep bus gets here at midnight.
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