Theme: Revisiting the history
Hiking Route: Chaimali – Pauwa – LamaGaun
Hike Coordinator: Bahadur Baniya
Day: August 3, 2008, Sunday
Team: BabinsS, BahadurB, BasantaJ, BishalP, Eyasha Pandey (Purushottam Dai’s Daughter), LekhnathB, MaheshS, ManishS, PawanP, PrajwalS, PurushottamP, RaviS, SudeepS
Report By: Lekhnath Bhusal
Caption By:Ravi Sharma/Prajwal Shrestha
Creative Support: Dijup/Pallavi

We left D2 premises at 6 A.M., earlier than the usual hiking time. Our plan was to start hiking from Kulekhani. We drove to Dakshinkali and had our breakfast there. There were two routes to drive to Kulekhani. We chose the shorter one through Dakshinkali. After only five minutes of drive we were stuck in the muddy road. We asked the local people about the condition of the road ahead. They replied with the same answer- it is a bit easy, and the harder one is just the beginning. We were not satisfied with the answers; especially Ram was not sure whether he could cross that muddy road. A Sumo van driver said it was very hard even for his van to pass through the road and it would be better for us to return back. We desperately wanted to advance but our van could not move any further. Some of us got out of the van and pushed it from the back.We got out of the bus and started to walk from there itself. The place was Milan Chowk and time was 9 A.M.

We asked the local people about the way to Kulekhani and started walking along. After few minutes of walk we were not ready to continue the road, so we searched for a track for a short cut. Soon we started climbing up the hill; the local women encouraged us by saying that we could reach Kulekhani in 3 hours if we were to follow that particular track. We climbed up until we reached the top. When we reached there, we noticed that there were leeches in the jungle, canary in a coal mine. We poured salt all over our shoes. We could not find any one to ask the right way to Kulekhani-we had to decide the route on our own.We finally saw a small village down the hill and headed towards the same. We saw a small track far from us but could not figure out the right path to lead us to the track. We travelled down the way that was easier. We landed up in a very damp place where leeches started falling from almost everywhere. When we were out of that place all of us were covered with leeches. It was hard time to detach all the leeches. The villagers were also amazed seeing us there out of that damp place.

We distributed copies and pens to the children there since all the schools in Makawanpur district were closed for summer vacation. One of the villagers agreed to guide us up to Pauwa, a nearby village. We were disheartened when he told us that we were already on the wrong track to reach Kulekhani and 4 hours away from it. It was already 12:30 and it was nearly impossible to reach Kulekhani since we were not likely to get any vehicle there. It was then that we decided to return back. The villager informed us that we could return back to Pharping in about 2.5 hours. He showed us the right way to return back.

We reached Humane village in 2 hours and decided to have lunch there and informed Ram to drive back to Pharping and arrive at that village if possible. Ram drove upto Lama Village that is 45 minutes walk from Humane village.

We ordered for lunch at a local hotel and some of us decided to go up the hill. When the friends returned back, we were amazed to hear that we were at a distance which was approximately 45 minutes far from the point where we had initially started our hike. We had our lunch and returned back from to Lama Village at 4:30 P.M. and drove back.The hike was short and adventurous; we were not able to reach the planned destination due to the muddy roads of the rainy season. We finally decided that the planned trip actually deserves two days hike in this season.

01 Cloudy and misty day	02 Looks Like a School
03 Heavenly Garden at Farping	04 Breakfast @ Dakshinkali
05 A test of Manual Focus	06 Stairs above Dakshinkali
07 You`re beautiful	08 Who is that
09 Monsoon highway	10 Hoste Haisen Vehicle stucked in the highway
11 Everyone looks fresh	12 We will follow the shortcut
13 Lets move now	14 Bolo Alok Niranjan
15 Stone God	16 Is the tyre painted yellow
17 A House through the Pines	18 Tough Way to School
19 Climbing high_01	20 Climbing high_02
21 ravi looks tired this time	22 Valley looks far far away
23 U curve stream	24 Dirty kathmandu
25 A story under the shade	26 filling up some energy
27 Waiting for others	28 Way insided the Forest
29 Above the forest	30 We can lift it
31 they are planning to go the oposite way	32 Such a nice place
33 As always poosers	34 Landscape_01
35 landscape_02	36 Babins be carefull
37 Rest for some cucumber n tea	38 Mouth watering cucumber
39 KU guys enjoyin the hike	40 Common Banded Peacock Butterfly
41 Distributing notebook n pencil_01	42 Juga stabbed in from the back side
43 Hamro pani yeuta pic hai	44 Ohh nooo Daddy another leech
45 On the way to Lama gau	46 Padmashana experineced by Pawan
47 Makai baari	48 Our hike stops there
49 Eyasha on the lead	50 Come on guys
51 Fern arena	52 ma hu ek aam nepali
53 Good use of Natural Resources	54 Look at those red carrots
55 They still wanna walk	56 People come up the hill to worship
57 Revisiting the temple at top	58 Inside the jungle
59 Pines standing tall	60 Misty hills
61 Guys happy playing Carom Board game	62 Sorry but u will die today
63 Ready for the heavy lunch	64 hey guys stop them
65 Misty Capture	66 They are busy in taking photographs
67 A view of Farping_01	68 A view of Farping_02
69 Beauty at its best	70 Are they rock climbers
71 The way to Farping	72 Pharping is popular for naspati(Pyrus pyrifolia)
73 Captured for rememberance	74 Gumba on the way to Farping