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Nepal Annapurna Circuit Trek 4

We spent an afternoon exploring Muktinath which has a big Buddhist and Hindu temple complex a popular pilgrimage site for both religions. There are several areas with spouts or fountains you can bathe in to wash away all your sins and get into heaven. In this village along with western style toilets also had the first motorized vehicles we’d seen since leaving on the trek. The next day we wen
Nepal Annapurna Circuit Trek 3
We passed some sketchy avalanche prone areas where there had clearly been some recent rockslides but made it to Thorung Phedi for lunch with little problem. The teahouse we stopped at was full of other trekkers many of which we had met during the past week all waiting to go over the pass the following day. From there it was less than two hours although just 450 m in altitude to the high cam
Nepal Annapurna Circuit Trek 2
In Manang we stayed 2 nights at the Yak Hotel Lodge which featured an interesting Mexican section to the menu. Hmmm. On our ldquooffrdquo day we hiked up a few hundred meters to some amazing overlooks of the valley a big green lake and Gangapurna glacier. We got fleeting glimpses of Gangapurna peak 7454 m as well. There were a lot of prayer flags flapping all over the place and some
Nepal Annapurna Circuit Trek 1
We got picked up at our hotel after meeting up with our guide Dilman and our porter Shiva and then learned what a joy it was to drive in Kathmandu….got caught up in a massive traffic jam apparently a daily occurrence in the city. Our capable driver cut through some side streets and then drove through an area clearly designed for pedestrians or carts and finally got us out of the city. Th
Nepal Chitwan National Park
We spent our last week in Nepal in Chitwan National Park near the Indian border. We stayed at a nice hotel with air conditioning a real luxury and a great relief in the hot humid jungle. They arranged daily activities for us including a cultural tour of the town jungle walk jeep safari elephantback safari native dancing and a bath with an elephant in the river. The jungle walk was i
Nepal Annapurna Circuit Trek 5

The last leg of our trek We walked to Ghorepani which was over 5000 feet of uphill. The landscape had changed yet again into dense rhodedendron forests. Bright pink flowers carpeted the floor and hillsides. We had another early wakeup to hike up to the top of Poon Hill which is a beautiful spot to watch the sun rise. We could see Dhaulaghiri one of the ten highest mountains in the world an
Nepal Bhaktapur
We arrived in Kathmandu late and cleared customs painlessly and met our guide, Shree, who drove us to our hotel in Bhaktapur, right outside Kathmandu. Crashed out and awoke to find Bhaktapur a bustling little village full of shops and street vendors.

Annapurna Base Camp Trek, Ms Lisa Collaby Sept/Oct 2007

The Nepalese trekking season begins in earnest in October. The advantage of heading off into the mountains before then is that the trails are blissfully quiet. The disadvantage is that the weather can be a little unpredictable…It was late September when I set off to trek the Annapurna Sanctuary trail. Read more