The highway between the Kathmandu Valley and the lakeside town of Pokhara in central Nepal is a series of hillside-hanging "S"-shaped curves, one followed by another. Nonetheless, the scenery is utterly spectacular - terraced hillsides, green with baby rice seedlings, and below, a furiously flowing river of raging water browned with the monsoon run-off of hundreds of mountains streams.
A mist hangs low over the river valley as farmers weed their fields in the morning light. Cooks in roadship dhaabas (restuarants) prepare masala dishes for the crews that move an unending array of trucks between the industrial states of north India and the Kathmandu valley. The trucks, loaded with market goods, seem to ply the mountain road with their own form of aggression. As you see in the photo above, the pay-off is that some never complete the journey.
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