So a change in plans based on the news about the new Bhandar bus route. With my feeling better (either the paracetamol is working or I am getting better), but not 100% we thought why not try the new Bhandar service. After all it saves a day, and a lot of walking ... so we thought. (Photo #1: Walking through Kinja)
Slow walk uphill, stopping to take lots of pictures. (Photo #2 - looking back towards Kinja) Really taking it easy and trying to thoroughly enjoy this last day on the trail. There is really some lovely scenery here, plus the added attraction, as far as Sara is concerned, of lots of oranges. We even managed to get one man to sell us some right off of his tree (now that is fresh - especially for someone from Canada, where lets just say there are not a lot of orange trees about) . (Photo #3 is Sara getting her 10 fresh oranges right from the tree)
We had lunch in what I call "little" Bhandar, the Bhandar that is right on the trekking trail. A nice pleasant place with lots of flowers and tidy looking guesthouses. But that is obviously not where the new bus runs from. To find that we had to head about 1 km over to "big" Bhandar - which given its position at the end of the road has developed just like Jiri. Lots of garbage and uncontrolled development etc. (See pics next post). We bought our bus tickets...and then found out that it takes 4-5 hours just to get to Jiri - oops we can walk there in not that much longer than that.
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