Woke at 7 and had tea delivered to the room followed by breakfast of yoghurt, local honey, chapatti and toast - delicious.
After saying our goodbyes it was a 20 minute walk to the bikes and a down an up cycle to Chambra.
We were then treated to a tour of the village temples and then shown the way to the road to Jot. At the temple Chris asked the holy man 'hat is my next step' the holy man answered 'I don't know you and only you know in your heart' He gave a similarly evasive answer to the question 'what is better doing good or happiness?'
The road to Jot proved to be one of the biggest challenges of the holiday - a 5500 ft climb in the searing heat not helped by Chris' knee playing up. But we made it - 6 hours for me. I was surrounded by a crowd at the top - apparently they had never seen a mountain bike come up the hill ) we cheered Chris to the top and he collapsed as a marathon runner might at the end of the race showing the emotion of the challenge. We camped outside a rest house at the top of the mountain, watched am amazing electrical storm ate an amazing meal cooked by Dinesh washed down by a local brew called 10000 (very apt).
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