The last day of our Nepal trek was an easy drop of 900 meters (3000 feet) down steps to the trailhead at Naya Pul, which means "new bridge." Indeed, the local government was constructing an even newer bridge to bring the rough road up to another village uphill.The weather for our last morning was poor, obscuring the normally good view. A thunderstorm blew by and made us take shelter in a small teahouse an hour before the end.
We took a broken-down taxi from Naya Pul back up the rough road to the highway, then changed to a better car back to our hotel in Pokhara. To our delight, we found that FedEx had brought our passports back from New York the previous night.
Since the weather was bad and we had everything in hand, we decided to move up our flights to India. Although it cost extra, it will allow us to complete our business in Delhi and get to Leh earlier. Also, the date we were originally leaving was a key deadline in Nepal's never-ending political troubles, and we wanted to get out before we ran into any more trouble.
