Today we went right proper rural, diving into the heart of the Nepalese jungle. We saw 100m of tarmac all day, the remaining 41.9km were the most brutal conditions imaginable on a bike - particularly for a road bikie from the flatlands like me - huge stretches of trail and track where it was a challenge to push the bike, let alone ride it, and the bits that were ridable demanded total concentration to avoid falling off onto rocks or ditches or over the edge of the trail (loooong way down...), riding up and down steep rocky rivers, over tree roots, through sludge filled deep holes. I think I was the only person not to fall off (how?), others fell off two or three times.
But... that aside it was a magical day, we saw 1 bus (on the 100m of tarmac section), 4 motorbikes and a broken down jeep, that was it for 9 hours of riding. Oh, and acres and acres of Majorana plants, which made for a very happy ride...
Similar conditions await tomorrow, though mercifully 30km rather than 42km.
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