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Despite the mystical and poetic aspect of the place, the smell of burnt human flesh has reinforced our vegetarianism and motivated us to return to our hotel for our last night in Nepal. The next day we again have the joy of Air India, our flight is delayed by 4 hours, with not one notification from Air India or even a representative to talk to.
On arrival at Mumbai we were proved wrong, our luggage was already on the carousel as we arrived…. We had one more connection to go before we arrived at our final destination,Goa. A little shopping trip to Thamel in Kathmandu where there are numerous of shops for all trekking needs. We managed to get fully kitted out in the first shop we found for chf, all made by The North Face or at least thats what we were told.
We purchased the following:. We limited our pharmacy to: aspirin, anti-biotic broad spectrum medic against the altitude in case of emergency. Essential oil blends, plasters, arnica, coca 3CH. Thamel, le quartier touristique de Kathmandu, est le paradis du trekker. TIMS card. Entry Permit.
Last stop of the day was to book our place on the bus from Kathmandu to Bhulbule where we would start the trek. We were assigned our seats on a bus that fits about 20 people and then set off from the bus station. A few times we stopped for the driver to pick up his shopping, the one stop was for an emergency Bob Marley sticker……. Nous avons mis environ une heure pour quitter Kathmandu.
These are the cheap seats. With all that we finally arrived 9h later at our destination and the first hotel in front of the bus stop was our happiness. We found out the next day that the guesthouses of Ngadi about 30 minutes walk after Bhulbule were pretty much in the middle of nature … for the amateurs. The next day was the real start of the trekking, after a good breakfast we set off. After only 2 minutes we hit our first of the many dreaded suspension bridges.
Luckily Ian had had his oats for breakfast and was ready to tackle this life threatening obstacle. We had made the decision to trek the route with no assistance from guides or porters. We had left most of our luggage back at the hotel in Kathmandu and only carried what we thought was essential. Le sac de Cindy pesait 6. After the first great day, our initial worries of wether or not we were capable of doing this trek were removed. Trekking the Annapurna route is very similar to hiking across the Alps, just that this is bigger and higher.
According to a local, about tourists every day pass his guesthouse. The map shows other side paths, but in the whole time we never found one of these. Since the road is curvy, we still feel a bit alone in the world sometimes for a few long moments. The first day we wanted to do the real Swiss mountaineering, we arrived at Jagat just before sunset after more than 7 hours of walking.
Legs a little heavy and hungry, it is with pleasure that we stop in a guesthouse next to the river. After 7 hours this is 1st class! All happy with the surroundings, Ian settled down to washing some clothes in a bucket in the squatting toilet. Overcome by all this excitement he threw the waste water down the toilet only to realise a sock was still in the bucket.
The next day he decided to abandon his other orphan sock…. The second day we share good time always in our Swiss motivation of the mountaineer. We made a short stop at the Rainbow guesthouse in front of a beautiful waterfall and met two nice Canadian girls.
We highly recommend this guesthouse, about 30 minutes from Jagat worth the trouble altogether if you like small family hotel atmosphere lost in the wilderness in the background of running water. Vue depuis rainbow guesthouse. Surprisingly, Ian has no pain in his knee which had undergone an operation 20 years earlier, which is normally painful after a few hours of walking … yes. In the evening we taste our first apple pie, hummmmm except it looks more like a meat pie than apple pie, good always better than a meat ice-cream and more it begins to get chilly a little at m at night.
Ian is full of courage and braves the first of the days big suspension bridges despite it not being of Swiss quality standards …. The road to Bahundanda is beautiful, one reaches a new valley. The morning sunrise and mist makes it feel like a mixed between the Lord of the Lambs and Silence of the Rings … We have lunch in a friendly guesthouse owned by a family from Kathmandu.
Incredible view and the owner speaks good English, we recommend this guesthouse. Only problem it is built into the rocky walls, apparently safe despite the large landslide a few meters away …. By late morning we reach Bahundanda second checkpoint of our trekkers cards. Useful info: villages with purified water are available, yes plastic bottles are not needed in the mountains …. We stop at an empty guesthouse we come across in Danaque…. At night, the sky is beautiful but it starts to get freezing cold, so quickly shortens our romantic minute to go snuggle under heavy blankets made of yak hair.
Safe water drinking stations. On the fourth day, after a long climb we reach Temang for breakfast. Here is like at home, typical landscape of the Swiss mountains. A few hours walk later we cross the metropolis of Chame, market town of the mountain. We decide to stop 30 minutes after Chame in the village with 5 houses and many animals.
We are the only guests and we are treated like royalty. We are entitled to our personal heating in the dinning hall and a fabulous dal bhat dinner!!! Quelques heures de marche plus tard nous traversons la megalopole de Chame, ville marchande de la montagne.
On the fifth day, we arrived in a small village at the entrance of another valley. We are in a time warp, sound of drums, donkeys, farm workers, animal skins hanging from the balconies and full of vegetables drying in the sun…. The landscape is incredible, you can see the snow capped mountains of Annapurna. We stop at Upper Pisang meters, Ian bravely films from the roof of our guesthouse:.
We visit a Buddhist temple received by young monks from Kathmandu who come to spend a few months of rest and training in this peaceful location. Inside the temple are Buddha statues, oddly one of the statues begins to move, it may be a sign ….
And it is still snowing. According to the father of the hotel in two hours everything will be melted. We said we will wait a bit ….
Et il neige encore. We deal with the situation while drinking overpriced tea for Nepal … and learning to play a Nepalese card game. We are all huddled around the stove, apparently the best in the area, we collect some tourist refugees from other hotels without heating.
A young and very professional guide watches movies on his mobile phone to exhaust all of the battery that can potentially be used to call in case of emergency …. The day passes, also the night and finally we wake up with the joy of seeing the sun glowing, illuminating the snow with mad intensity.
We decide to take the road to Manang despite our walking shoes poorly adapted to extreme conditions. Everyone seems surprised by this snowfall even the animals and vegetation:. We are moving in single file, sometimes crossing donkeys and a few people who are coming back down. From midday, the snow begins to melt, walking becomes more difficult, muddy and slippery. We decide to take a break to enjoy our first yak cheese, very tasty for yak!
Yak en saucisse. Then we stopped a little before Manang , at Mungi in its only guesthouse in front of the first German Bakery. Yes strange concept, there are German bakery from m in tourist parts of the Nepalese mountains.
There we find a variety of pastries from a cinnamon roll to crunchy biscuits. Strange place to sunburn haha. Then we hear for the first time about the storm by a French group who are on the way back down, saying 9 Japanese reportedly died in an avalanche, and Thorong-La pass is closed for an indefinite period.
There is no heating in the guesthouses, normally the walls are made of a few planks of wood without plaster, here we have real brick walls with cement…. The next day we decided to go see what is happening in Manang. We meet hundreds of people who come down with an air of vexation including a couple that we encountered a few times on the way up. Apparently the storm was worse than we realised, more are reported to have been killed of all nationalities.
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