On the bike at last, and then off it again...

CDay 2  - Kathmandu to Kakani, 30km

Driven to the outskirts of Kathmandu and finally onto the bikes. Only 30km distance today but almost all of it uphill, the "road" at best was a jeep track and at worst was simply unridable "hike-a-bike" as my US fellow riders call it. Pushing the fricking bike uphill is what I call it. Worse though were the technical descents - all of the other riders (all american) were experienced technical trail riders, they just vanished into the distance as soon as the track got all rutted and potholed - me, well I vanished into a shitty ditch after just a few KM and wondered if the rest of the trip was going to be quite as rural as this.

Falling in love already with Nepalese people, every child waves and shouts hello as you go by, busses with 50 children inside going to school... and another 30 on the roof!

Lunch was at a local trout restaurant - the trout were fished out of the pond upon order, boshed on the head and appeared as lunch 30 minutes later - cant get much fresher than that!

Finally off the rutted trash and back onto a long steady 15km climb on reasonably well maintained road and suddenly I go from being tail end charlie to leading the way up the climb - funny old world.

First sight of the monster mountains of the himalaya in the distance, snowcapped peaks poking through the clouds. 

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