Today we woke up early (at 5:30) to start our second day of trekking. On the plus side, it wasn't raining; in fact the weather was gorgeous and sunny. Unfortunately, all of our clothes were still wet from the thorough soaking we got yesterday. Since we really only brought two pairs of clothes we decided that we would put the wet clothes back on for the hike so that we would have dry clothes to change into when we finished for the day. But we waited till the last possible minute to put those cold wet clothes on. We went down for breakfast and another look at the view in our dry clothes before changing.
Breakfast was great! Eggs, hashbrowns, toast, juice and coffee for 5 bucks. Not bad considering the only way to bring supplies in is by foot or donkey and it is a one day walk to the nearest road! Of course, these little villages are quite self sufficient: they grow a lot of their own food and there are many chickens and water buffalo around. In Nepal, the default milk is water buffalo milk because the cow is a sacred animal to the Hindus
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