Seeing as I signed up for a 10-day mountain bike tour in Madagascar I decided to see how the ol' legs were holding up since I haven't been on a bike in a couple of months now. I'm here to tell you 35k through the KTM valley was a bit of a chore. We started off with a steep climb up a paved road. Steep climbs in Nepal also mean steep descents. Most of the descent were on narrow dirt roads carving through various villages and rice/vegetable fields. Given the landscape, all of the farms are terraced steps on the side of hills...very scenic when you're not doing 100m m.p.h.
Some of the dirt trail climbs were so steep and wet we ended up hiking our bikes up them. However, it was the marginally inclined, rocky trails in the villages that kicked my ass. Oh well, I think I'll be ready for Madagascar come December.
Oh, like Indonesia, I'm very popular with the Nepalese villagers. Kids were running out of their houses and along side us yelling, "Namaste, Hello, How are you? Good bye." Even most adults would stop what they were doing and greet us.
Good times.
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