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Last few for tonight - past my bed time!

Down in the basin in the paddy fields. Such hard work for the Nepalese people who earn about £1.20 a day

Photos before we lose our height and get onto the paddy fields.

haha! These are from day 5 but I have been editing day 6 tonight! Sorry if you may have seen some of these before!

We passed through so many old gorgeous villages/hamlets and met so many friendly people

I have eventually got around to editing a fe more photos tonight and cant wait to show you all! As I said to someone earlier though, every photo tells a story when you are there. For the onlookers it is just a photo. I will put a comment on a few to tell you what I am trying to show. These are from day 5 - such a diverse day and still more editing to do from it! This was the start of the day and a visit to Namo Buddah Monastry.

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Birthday boy

So men, do you secretly desire a new pure slim women? Well send your wife here. Every year she will fast for a month, then go down these steps to the river and wash away all her sins. All is good with the world again! 😂

These vehicles are used a lot in Nepal - not sure why we dont have them over here?

Can't believe I have been home a week now and only just getting around to editing my photos - there are hundreds of them! Today I have just found a couple of interesting ones though. We walking round Banipur and saw the ladies outside the butchers (not like our butchers). Note the chicken under the table. Then we came across the medicine man. Who needs a GP?

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Marathon presentation

Marathon Day! Woken by the chanting monk who the runners did some stretching movements to, led by Tania

Marathon runners arrival

Following our trek up to the village the next day we visited the health centre and then enjoyed a relaxed day sitting in the sun at tracey and David's wedding blessing.

A few general pics around the village. We got invited to one of the neighbours for some Chang. Chang is a strong alcoholic drink made from maize which they are very proud of. Its disgusting

We donated £1250 from The Book Shed, thanks to our lovely people in Barnstaple, so we went up to the health clinic/maternity hospital in the village to see how they had spent it. They had a lot of things including a new birthing table with stirrups. We were welcomed and shown around by Siam. They have 16 ladies on their books at the moment, 21 births last year. They can only really deal with easy births here, anything complicated and they need to go to Kathmandu 3 to 4 hours away

Not sure where I got to with the photos, but these are when the trekkers arrived at the village.

Arrived back in Kathmandu, the world of WiFi!
Cant believe what an incredible experience we have had. It was tough but after 9 times of coming here it has been fantastic to get involved with people going about their everyday lives and not just observing from a distance.
We have walked through towns where tourists don't go and eaten flavoursome food every meal.
If anyone is interested in doing this unique trek please email me [email protected] and I can send you more information when I have got it together.

Yesterday we had our final leg to the village, lamaland. The first 3 hours it was easy and we spent time doing work experience in the fields with the locals, cutting and threashing rice which was brilliant.
The next bit was torture, for me anywY. It was hot and we climbed for 1500 metres starting on goat tracks, I had lost the will today.
We had a lovely welcome so the climb was worth it

Before the pool party, yesterday was different again. You wake up thinking it will be the same as the day before, but it wasn't.
We wandered through many villages where no tourists go and everyone comes out to look at us which is really funny. We try to communicate with them and they love it. We have seen so many old skills which are no longer carried out in England, they work so hard for self sufficiency and day to day living. We made one guys day when we all brought yak wool scarves from him.
The walking was fine to start, then we had a couple of mile uphill in hot sunshine, but then had a huge descent to the bottom of the valley on a very narrow skrid path with a loose surface. Very technical and difficult for some.