Tansen.....its strange!

Made it to Tansen today the Siddhatha highway is very beautiful and I can see why it is ranked as one of the most scenic highways in Nepal. It is also uphill most of the way!!!!

Yesterday I left Pokhara early and cycled around 85kms before I was fixing my 3rd puncture of the day around 130pm. It had been a tough mainly uphill cycle and none of the towns I went through were on my map and for ages I did not know where I was and how far I had to go, it was hard.... Anyway...as I was trying to fix this puncture ( a Nepalese lady was trying to help me, she didn't speak English) and everytime she helped it kind of hindered what I had already done and all the time speaking to me. It was really hot and I think I must have looked a bit stressed as a guy on the loveliest silver Royal Enfield bike pulled over to see if I needed help. By then I was already done so he said 'there is a market / bus park 3km down the road I will meet you there'. fair enough, so I went to meet him and it turns out he is the bus monitor, he sat me down and gave me tea and said I looked really tired so just rest for a bit.
He said I was 47km from Tansen (but its all uphill) so I decided I would stay with his family and do the rest tomorrow as it would be dark before I got there ( so I hung out for a few hours chatting to lots of people and drinking tea and eating samosas (they really looked after me and again would not let me pay). We stored my bike in his office and I got on the bike and he drove me to his family's guest house which was lovely. For 300NR I got endless tea, Dahl Bhat, a bed, a bucket of water for washing, a wake up call and a lift back to my bike this morning!
Today was really tough all uphill apart from 7miles, at one stage I was so tired I thought I was going to cry, It seemed never ending! So I took the executive decision to get off my bike push it for about 40minutes while listening full blast to dance music....it worked wonders and I made it to Tansen by 11.30am.

Tansen is weird, where I'm staying is full of military not really doing much. The views from here are great though. And I had a really great afternoon nap!!

Tomorrow.. Lumbini- the birth place of Buddha (88km), hopefully I have done most of the uphill now!!