At the moment I am in Chitwan national park a slight variation to my proposed
schedual!
I left Kathmandu at 6am on Sunday morning, at 630am I got my first of many
punctures!!! I was helped by a nice traffic policeman abd generated a crowd of
12 people, this is as I was to discover a very small crowd. Then I cycled up out
of the valley and started gliding down the mountain! After about 15km it became
quite up and down. Around 830 it was time for puncture no2, this time a load of
scholl kids came to watch, fiddle with my bike, help and try on my helmet!
Then I stopped for breakfast, I pulled into this little roadside shack,
Namaste!!!! I was given spicy potatoes a boiled egg and chai tea (all for 30p).
A crowd gathered again so I got out my map and showed them my plans, they were
very intrested, with a lot of laughing and gestering and the little kids talking
English to me
Then I set off, at 10.30 it was time for my next puncture. This time there was
over 20 people and the son of one of the houses took over but we could not fix
the tyre as the glue on my patches had gone funny. So a lady who spoke English
said dont worry bike mechanic is on his way, and if we cant fix/ or he cant come
you can sleep here and we fix it tommorrow. She offered me food and a drink and
we chatted about everything. They fixed my bike and off I went again. When I
stopped for lunch a Nepalese man sat with me and we chatted and he brought me my
lunch.
Then I made it to Malekeau (just short of Muggling) and was pointed in the
direction of a house to sleep, they told me where I would eat dinner and where I
could drink tea (my custom was most fairly shared out).
The daughters where I stayed painted my nails to make me look Nepalese and
brushed my hair, which they loved, emptied all my bags, reorganised them and
said I could not go for a walk as it was danger hour! But invited me to sit on
the roof with them!
This was my first day, its awesome. I AM SIMPLY LOVING IT!!
I feel I am getting to see the real nepal and am meeting loads of Nepalese! I
was concerned I may be lonely on my bike but this is not the case!
Everywhere I go on my bike people shout and wave hello, and when I stop they are
all intrested (very much with my bike helmet) in where I am going/come from.
They are lovely and generous and I feel that because I am stopping at these out
the way places I am seeing a side, and meeting people that I would otherwise not
have got too.
The scenery is beautiful.... day two update will follow tomorrow
That sounds soo awesome! Why are you getting so many flats? Thorn?
ReplyDeleteHow are you accessing the internet?
-Taylor
I think my inner tubes are perished and keep splitting, its rubbish! I am tring to buy new ones but its tricky! I am in Chitwan now which is bigger and has the internet, every few days I will be in a biiger town that has the internet!
ReplyDeleteHope all is well with you, was thinking the other day a go pro would have been awesome for recording the trip!