Oct 5, 2019 Gorkha to Dhadingbesi:  54km, 3,094 to date, 976M up, 33,982M climbing to date

3rd to last day.  Effectively all off-road - gravel/rocks/mud - 5 riders fell today, one 4 times, luckily no-one hurt other than minor scratches.  

This was a much better choice of route than the main highway, which wold be nuts to try cycle on, in fact Tda has made the call that we will not cycle on the main highway.  Although rough, the route today was way off the eaten track, no tourists go here, a beautiful ride, commonly along the top of a ridge and effectively no traffic, no diesel fume belching buses.

The route did come with two stream crossings, managed to ride across one, not the other. Totally wet feet on both crossings, but it is hot enough that the feet/shoes dried quickly.

Interesting scene as we left Gorkha, we cycled past the water buffalo slaughtering spot.  Two full backs with an axe and the head rolled off to the side.  They were then using a blowtorch to burn off all the hair (I think).  A few hundred metres later I saw another Water Buffalo being led to the same location - it was clearly not happy, it sensed what was coming.

Note the severed head on the left

The local ferris wheel

The "bush" in the road is a person carrying feed to his/her livestock

a swing in the middle of the road

Typical road surface today

one of the stream crossings

This swing doubles as the small village entrance gate