Today we have headed further into Nepal. We have passed lots of farmland. Right now is mustard season needless to say it felt a bit like home with yellow fields and the smell of flowering mustard (canola). We were so surprised by the amount of bicycles in Nepal. There was probably 50 bicycles to every motorized vehicle on the road. I guess when fuel is $1.30 a liter and it is one of the poorest countries in the world it makes sense to ride a bike. Even the ...

Today we got up early to head into Nepal. Again the traffic was crazy and the roads were horrible...the 350km journey took us about 8.5 hours. We officially said goodbye to India and walked across the border into Nepal. We stayed in a small town called Lumbini which is famous for being the birthplace of Buddha. There is a monument at the place where he was born and a stone with his footprint in it. There are also a number of Buddhist monasteries here from cou...