Devghat...

Devghat, Late Afternoon

At 5 this morning, my eyes opened to KB's question: Bihanai niskane ho? (Are we going to leave early in the morning?)
Of course. I jumped out of bed and headed for the bathroom and did everything but shower. The food last night was so good that I was afraid it would mess up my stomach. But it didn't. No tea either, and we headed straight for the main road in front of the house.
Our first stop was Gaidakot, where we took a dip in a very swollen Narayani river, and cleaned that water off with a couple of buckets of water from a nearby well. After a change of clothing, after our'bath', we walked to the Ram Temple, walked about and back to the Narayanghat Chowk. From the bridge we saw a boy on a tube floating after a big piece of log go under us (we reached the other side before he emerged), a 10 Rupee rickshaw, 15 Rupee bowl of Tarkari (Vegetables) and a cup of tea, and a 30 minute bus ride later we reached Devghat.
KB introduced me to a man, a former big person, businessman, politician, who renounced the world and just finished repeating the Gayatri Mantra of the order of a million times in 23 months. We had lunch/breakfast on the upper wooden floor of his half wooden, half cement house (because the lower portion was Dhalan'd- that is, cemented). I packed the smaller sling bag while our host talked, and was ready to leave on my journey, just as he suggested that he show us around. So, I left everything there and went on a tour of Devghat.