Day three was a beautiful hike through rice and millet terraces along the Eastern side of the river. After we crossed over the rive at Shyange, where there was a beautiful waterfall and a not so beautiful hydro electric plant (generating power from the water fall), we found ourselves walking along the under-construction dirt road. This road will haunt us for the remainder of the circuit trek. It has been under construction for the last 5-10 years and is in no way complete, the speculation is that the government, who receives foreign aid money strictly for rural road development, is squandering the money, feigning construction a road to the district headquarters of Manang along a nearly impossible river gorge, using jack hammers, picks and the occasional explosive to whittle away at the sheer rock walls...oh the sounds of jackhammers and diesel generators in the wilderness...
