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The whole day is spent on the bus. We go the same way as I went when I visited Lunbini, then beyond. What a journey. We arrive at the Mahendranagar bus park around 4pm. Curiously there are no taxis but electric golf buggies and horse drawn carriages. We take the electric cart to krishna’s home.Continue reading “Tuesday 19 April 2016”

We pack up and after some breakfast Krishna takes me quickly on his bike to one of the border marker pillars that signals the border between India and Nepal. I want a photo. We get an electric golf buggy taxi into town and a bus to Kolaphur. We arrive around 8pm and walk to theContinue reading “Thursday 21 April 2016”

I pack up my stuff and organise to leave things in storage, and pay my bill. Dipak picks me up around 1pm and we go to his house to pack his things into my bay. I meet Dipak’s mother and his cousins who are staying in the Kathmandu for schooling. We then walk out toContinue reading “Monday 18 April 2016”

We start the day with a bike ride into a market area and start walking. We’re visiting a community forest with one of Krishna’s uncles. He is a guardian of the forest and he’s taking us to a special tree within the forest that is host to many colonies of native honey bees. The communityContinue reading “Wednesday 20 April 2016”

We spent a hellish hot night in a Kohalpur hotel. It’s so hot here. Like Mahendranagar, we are subject to the desert winds of northern India. I’m constantly drinking water. A man from a bee association in this region met us first thing. Krishna is going back to Kathmandu for a family wedding and startContinue reading “Friday 22 April 2016”

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 takesContinue reading “Monday 25 April 2016”

Did my back pack arrive? We get up early because we have to catch s bus to take us to Tansen. Then another to Pokahara. Dipak jokes that my bag didn’t arrive and I partly believe him. I didn’t think our ambitious plan to get my backpack here would work. But it did. It wasContinue reading “Tuesday 26 April 2016”

The aim today is simply to get to Kathmandu. Dipak and I walk and bus into the lake area of Pokhara for a quick look. We check out the bus parks for the best ride to Kathmandu. There are a confusing array of bus parks and buses here as there are in every Nepalese city.Continue reading “Wednesday 27 April 2016”

They decide to open one of the stingless bee hives at the house to collect samples while I video the process. So many of the houses have hives for the Asian honey bee and the stingless bee. The stingless bees are very cute but they don’t produce much honey so I’m not sure why theyContinue reading “Sunday 24 April 2016”

We leave the hotel in Sandhikharka around 6.40pm to catch a jeep bus to Ishwori’s family home in Baidhadada. The jeep bus is simply a land cruiser type vehicle that has been adapted to carry as many people as possible. They are 4wD and provide a cheap transport option for people in the mountains. It’sContinue reading “Saturday 23 April 2016”