Village trek

Here I am in a small family village ...a 4 hour drive NW of Kathmandu, then a 5 hour trek deep into the jungle, up one side of the mountain, then down to the river and up the other side. After so many stops along the way to greet relatives in various villages (always including tea), we ended up extending the time required to get to the family village, so finished the day trekking to the village by headlamp. Which was brilliant and terrifying, along what Nepalese call a path, but it really it is indescribable. It was trekking along the edge of a cliff, where, by headlamp, it appears that you just may risk falling off the side of the cliff. I was quite glad to not have run into tigers or bears, as they apparently frequent the locale. Mind you, the tigers feast on goats, usually, so there probably wasn't tremendous danger. We ended up arriving at 8:30 pm, to feast on daal bhat (of course!) and was offered a tiny bed with a straw mattress (!) in one of their mud houses, conveniently located above the stable!

While there, I got to play with baby goats, chickens, buffalo...how lovely!

Springtime is also just around the corner, so everything is beginning to bloom - so refreshing and spectacular, compared to dry and dusty Kathmandu.