Sorry i'm lazy sitting here in a kiwi pub run by an Aussie in Riga Latvia so i copied from my log

27/3/12
The man at the hotel said there is a road from Manthali to Janakpur but it involves a suspion bridge, meaning less traffic as only motorbike/pushbike/pedestrion can go over it. This means a 160km trip about 6-7 hours instead of a 583km at least 2 day trip, sounds good to me.

It was a nice ride to the suspension bridge although I had trouble getting directions in Manathali, one guy seemed to be sugesting that the Kathmandu way was better. When I got to the bridge there was a truck being loaded on the north side, seemed to be by most of the village all getting some Rupee for every bag they carried over. It was a dirt walking track up over a ridge and down to the bridge which had a que of people heading in each direction. This ment a bit of a squeese getting through at some points and the bridge got a good swing going by the middle, the policeman who was controlling the numbers on the bridge was a bit shocked to see a me but that is normal.

Once I got to the road I found the truck that was being unloaded with ques pushing to get loaded. So I rode past and upto a bridge to no where, umm and from no where, new built with no entry or exit just 2-3 stories high spanning 50m maybe. I had been told there was a new road on the south side so headed off down the piece that was still being constucted, this lead to a detour which was shit. It has dust like what the Aussies call bull dust which covers all the holes and rocks and makes it look nice and smooth.

After about 20min of this I had my first true crash, after 1.25 ish years of travel. Don't stress mum it was climbing a hill covered in this dust, which consealed a rock, and I lost the front end falling down onto a bank on my left trapping my foot under the bike. Lucky it is so light it was easy enough to pick up, then rode to the top of the hill and decided to have a break.

Finally a bike come along so I stopped him to check if I was going the right way, I had been told it was a new road, and found out I was heading to Kathmandu not Janakpur, BUGGER.

Once back at the village I found the right road, ie the one I hadn't been down yet lol, and after a very short distance it become the most beautiful new road I have ever seen. Oohh man it is amazing, like in the movies when you see the roads it Italy, can not wait for them, lots of twisty bits getting higher and higher then a 180 and continue to climb. When I got to the top I saw a awesome sight of even more brilliant road going down the other side hehehheee. If any bikers read this, this road is between Manthali and Sindhulimadh, not marked on my map or any I have seen.

Soon after Sindhulimadh the road turned to shit, in fact for a few kilometers there is no road you are forced into the river bed to ride down. They are widing a section and none of it is that hard a ride just ruff.
I got to the turn off to Janakpur at about 15:00 so decided to get further along the main road unfortunately not finding a hotel till 19:00.

Check blog for photos and a video of me laughing at what i had to come.
Enjoy the trip
P.S don't plan too much i found the plan went out the window very quickly and often.

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