If you haven't heard about Rainaskot, this is for you.

You do not have to go to exotic locations to have fun. The people that you travel with must be fun. Well, when you travel with 32 people there is not a chance that you won’t be having fun. Our group is such that one or the other keeps you entertained throughout. This is the biggest lesson that I got after I went to the village of Rainsakot. Most of you probably might not have heard about this location. Rainaskot is a place which lies in lamjung and has a great value in terms of history. Many people might have heard about Baisya and Chaubisya Rajya.

The beautiful village of Rainaskot.

This place was used as a fort during that era for a war strategy. The main attraction of this place is a homestay which has been reconstructed after the massive earthquake. Rainaskot is an isolated place and the availability is facilities of transportation are very difficult. We were around 32 people including friends and family that travelled from Kathmandu to Rainaskot. There were around 13 houses so we divided into group of 8 people and 8 people stayed in one house and the other 8 in other. The boys were divided into groups according to capacity of the house. Since we reached around 5 the house owner served us tea and makai bhatmas. Makai bhatmas is something we 8 of us like so; we were fighting for a plate of makai bhatmas without knowing 2 plate of it was given to us. We had tea and makai bhatmas while enjoying the view as well as the weather. Since, it started raining as soon as we got there. The green forest and the mountain below were all covered by fog but, the view was still beautiful. If the view was clear we could have even seen the beautiful Manaslu, Lamjung, Annapurna, Machhapuchchhre and Dhawalagiri.

The amazing view from the house we stayed in.

Now after tea we walked around the small village and to see the houses. The most fun part about this was that some people who had tiktok started making their tiktok videos since they liked the weather and the view. While some of us were busy taking pictures. The aamas in the village were equally thrilled to take picture. They funniest part was they knew that our pictures were for social media even though they never used it.

Shanti with one of the owner of the homestay.

I completely forgot to tell you something. One of my friends had already been to Rainsakot. She had been there 4years before as a volunteer after the massive earthquake. She has also contributed in making toilets and houses of this village. It was amazing to see how aamas were so fond of her even after 4 years. She had told me during the ride how this village was and she enjoyed working here even though she had to walk 2 hours for their meeting while she was volunteering which was a program of VSO. She was also glad to see that the road to the village was well equipped than before.

The amazing part was the food there. They offered us typical Nepali for our dinner. The food was so tasty that I still miss it. Early in the morning we were boasting to other friends who lived in the other house how great the food from our house was. But, they also had the same reaction. While the boys were busy telling us that they had the most fun because they even got to cut the chicken they had for dinner. The food had no spice but, it was still tasty. Event after we reached Bandipur we thought how great it would be if we could still have that food. The best part about the dinner was the milk. Since, I am a vegetarian they offered me a glass of milk which had great taste. That night we slept a little late because we had deep conversation and even after the conversation other people who were also to have fun were singing and dancing which distracted us a little bit from going to sleep.

The next morning was the short hike to see the beautiful sunrise. We got up around at 5:30 and went to see the sunrise. Since, most of them too time to get ready me and my friend left them behind because we thought that we would be missing the sunrise. The view point of the sunrise was insanely beautiful as it was all covered up by cloud. It literally felt like heaven. Again, if there was no cloud we could have seen the beautiful landscape of 16 districts including Kaski, Tanahun, Gorkha, Chitwan, Dhading and Nawalparasi. But, we thanked the weather that we got to witness the beauty of the clouds which made us feel like we were in heaven. After watching sunrise we went to a place where they offered us breakfast. Some of them who were sleeping and didn’t come to see the sunrise we forced to come because we were having our breakfast there and again going for a short hike. On our way we got to see a lot of kafal tree.

Kaafal that we picked up from the tree while hike.

The beautiful view of the cloud from the Rainaskot viewpoint.

View from the Hike.

After the short hike we came back for lunch and every one had their lunch at their respected house. The lunch was equally tasty. After our lunch and short rest the aama of our house bid us goodbye with tika and flower.