This was the most physically exhausting day of my life. We decided to start the second day of our trek as early as possible, so we could get as far as possible before we got in the sun. Shailesh said it would take about 6 hours to get to Ghorepani, so we figured that it would take us at least 7.5 hours. Our day of treking started with 2 hours of going up steps. We saw on a map later that that section of the trail has 3,280 steps. This would be the hardest part of the entire trek.
This is what we did for two hours to start the day.
The weather was beautiful. It was clear in the morning and slightly cloudy in the afternoon with a high in the low 80's. This was actually the weather the whole time we were in Nepal. We couldn't have asked for better weather.
We stopped for lunch at a guesthouse on the trail, and as we were getting ready to leave, a group of schoolchildren came walking by us. They saw that we had our cameras out and of course wanted their pictures taken. They gathered around and kept saying "one picture, one picture" until we took a picture of them. Then of course after we took their picture, they kept saying "one picture, one picture." They got a couple of pictures, but we had to move on.
We finally arrived in Ghorepani in mid-afternoon. There were quite a few more people in Ghorepani. The popular thing to do is to get up early and trek to the top of Poon Hill to watch the sunrise. This was our plan too. Ghorepani had some things that the other little towns didn't have such as bookshops and a basketball court. We also saw some teenagers gambling in the street. They play a dice game. A couple of days later we also saw some younger children gambling in Pokhara. Of course we spent a good amount of our free time relaxing and recovering from the long trek that day.
Gambling 
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