Hike to Kalinchowk, Day 3

At least the previous day’s sleep was blissful, I slept peacefully. Woke up at around 4 am, freshened up. We were heading towards Dolkha Bhimsen temple that was about an hour from there. At around 5 am everyone was ready. The environment there was calm and peaceful. The chill air energized everyone. Me, Paritran and Sajan were a bit ahead and trusted on Google map for direction. Not that Google map was wrong but we took wrong trail by mistake and were almost 15 minutes off the track, then we took the main road. I and Paritran were ahead after this and we reached Dolkha Bhimsen Temple ahead of others. After everyone arrived we worshipped the shrine there, took photos obviously and headed towards bus stop.
We had breakfast at the nearby tea shop. There Manish was in highlight once again. He was complaining about gastritis as if it were severe and the owner of the shop gave us home-made remedy for curing it. She told us combination of ginger, dubo, and co can prevent gastritis effectively. Not that her suggestion was not legit, but her procedure was rather amusing; she told us that we have to move in and out of the main door of the house while preparing the remedy! The ride on the bus was equally compelling. We had the constant talks about the environment and in addition to that we were talking about how good a place it is to stay there. We were constantly comparing the prices of land in different places and came to the conclusion that land at Mude is perfect. A large compound surrounding a beautiful house, some fields for farming nearby; obviously we were joking but it was fun nonetheless. In Mude we had Kafal. After Mude the driver of the bus became quite unpredictable, he was speeding; but it was fun. Due to high speed and not so conditioned road we were constantly jumping off the seats which was fun. Later we learnt that another bus was chasing it. We got off the bus at Khadichaur.
Khadichaur was relatively not so good primarily due to the heat. It was very hot there. Nonetheless we had lunch there, and met an uncle there. We borrowed a bucket, jug and packets of salt. We were going to measure flow rate of the Sunkoshi River by conductivity method, or at least trying to measure. We went to the river, followed the procedure and took some data, not satisfactory but worth it nonetheless. It was around 2 pm after we had completed taking data; and photos! We had snacks in a nearby restaurant and took a bus to Kathmandu. We were bidding farewell to Khadichaur, Charikot and Kalinchok.

The bus ride was interesting as well. Durga met a local resident of Sindhupalchok who also happened to be a political activist. There was constant conversation about politics and local empowerment. Bikram joined later. I was particularly uninterested. The ride up to Bhaktapur was normal; we had left all the fun and awesomeness behind and returned to normal days now. I got off the bus at Suryabinayak, and headed home. Tired and exhausted with all the walking and hiking. Both my legs were aching, back too; but mind was in complete bliss. The trip was of just 3 days but we had unlimited fun. We made many memories that are sure to last a life time. 

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