Sat 23 Feb 2013 Walking

Our hosts wanted us to have breakfast at 7 or 7:30 but Lil told them 9am thankfully. We both slept well on the hard cots even though we were woken during the night by what seemed to be a loud aggressive dog which caused us a concern lying there thinking about the outside toilet!!

Our hope of a hot shower evaporated as there was no electricity but our hosts have brought us a bucket of hot water for washing. We are also given a lovely refreshing cup of tea.

Then breakfast. Cold pancakes, warm eggs and curried potatoes. They never seem to have hot food! Oh, and another cup of tea. When we finished the lady again put some red powder on our foreheads and a flower behind our ear before the usual greeting of namaste.

We all met at the temple for the farewell ceremony and the villagers followed us as we left until we came to the end of the village.

It was about 10:45 when we left. There are steps everywhere in this land and you arre either going up them or coming down them. As we reached Janahit we stopped in the village for tea and they had to break into the English toilet for me as the key holder had gone off for a picnic. Tea and biscuits for 6 was 70p. We set off again at 1pm and arrived back at Daraun at 2:45pm.

The Internet is still not working so we have been out of contact since Thursday except for text messaging.