Doshain festival is coming to an end and action on the construction site at Mahendra started up again today. Carrie and I helped out pouring concrete for the first five of the columns below grade.

Monsoon season is dragging this year, it’s still raining almost daily, Parshu was just telling me this morning that there are 755 tourists and guides stuck in the mountains all around Nepal because of the weather this year.

Still Doshain festival here but on a rainy day we visited the Mahendra School site, all of the grade beams are in and no more excavations have collapsed…. Work resumes in 3 days time.

We visited rural Nepal today and got treated to the best hospitality from Parshu’s in laws.

Doshain festival is now fully underway with families getting together and feasting, we saw several goats and pigs getting slaughtered and butchered at the side of the roads and Parshu, Carrie and I decided to eat vegetarian for a couple of days! We go to learn Nepali folk songs with Parshu and Ganja.

We headed to Chainpur and did a concept design for the new proposed coffee production facility then visited a very successful coffee farm…. Transport involved 6 of us stuffed like sardines in a tuk tuk! Coffee is a major source of income for the people of this region of Nepal. This area has historically been almost entirely subsistence farming.