Every day provides another opportunity for an easy trek.

To Namo Buddha, a holy site for hundreds of years. This is a legendary stupa where a prince (the Buddha in a past life) came upon a starving mother tigress about to devour a boy. Out of compassion, the prince offered his own flesh to save the boy. The remains of the body are believed to be enshrined in the main stupa decorated with colourful prayer flags. Above the site is a Tibetan-Buddhist monastery.

Another morning, you might set your sights on Dapcha, a charming medieval village with wooden houses stacked on a narrow ridge.

Rounding the hilltop itself is a small reserve of dwarf pines and flowering bushes.

There is always a settlement to walk through or the hospitable village school to distract you. Tired out, take the public bus for few rupees anywhere along the main dirt road to the junction of Phulbari ridge. This is the way to rural Nepal.