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Miscellaneous impressions from the foothills of the Himalayas, as we wiggled our way from Pokhara to Kathmandu. Life is full of hills here, and the hills are full of life. . . . . #nepal #himalayas #bikewander #bikepacking #biketouring #adventurebybike #roadslikethese #keepexploring #discovernepal

Hangin’ with the locals during a lunch break in a wee village. This lady was a character, full of eyebrow-raising lines like ‘Look at my big cock’ and ‘My husband is a very very black man’.

Much of the Nepal we’ve seen looks something like this. Between the low, flat band in the south, and the high Himalayas in the north there are terraced hillsides as far as the eye can see. . . . #nepal #bikewander #bikepacking #roadslikethese #adventurebybike

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The fifth lake by ‘Scoundrel’s viewpoint’ above Gokyo is worth a stroll. It has frozen over and the water level has dropped creating this surreal concave lake surface and the most excellent ice patterns.

I’m a pretty big fan of my Adidas / Five Ten mountain biking shoes. I’m not going to lie though, crossing this glacier in them may have been taking the ‘stealth rubber is sticky’ promise a tad too far.

Lakes one, two and three from up on Gokyo Ri. 🤯

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