Before dinner the rain comes in force. It pours down hard for about an hour then stops and the skies clear. After dinner the Bhaudari Youth Family come to entertain us with traditional dances. They are much better than the women who had visited us a few nights before. During another cold night it rains on and off.
Today is Nepal's New Year.
It is their year 2058. We ascend again, with further glimpses of the snow covered mountains, for half an hour before a relatively easy trek through the villages and onto the tarmac road to Naudanda. This is fair sized town and I stop to buy some mineral water, which is refreshingly cool straight from the fridge. We have a short climb to a small plateau just beyond this town where we stop for lunch. Two hours into the afternoon trek the rain comes with a thunder storm.