Michael Tyler

Pokhara you will be familiar with, if you’ve been reading the blog.

Besi Sahara less so. Besi Sahar is the gateway to the Annupurna Circuit Trek.

Having failed on my Annapurna Base Camp mission, I decided to return to base, get a couple more bits of kit, and attempt the similarly difficult, Annapurna Circuit Trek.

Annapurna Circuit Trek

It’s a much longer trek. If you look closely at the map, you may be able to recognise some of my previous destinations in the centre bit.

I’ve got 16 days before I go back home. Continue reading “Day 26/27: Pokhara and Besi Sahar”

Guy in the hotel tells me ‘all down-hill’.

What relieving words to hear!

True as well. Apart from a few river valleys, it was all downhill.

Poon Hill

Very cloudy in the morning.

Didn’t bother with it. Some people come specifically for this, but I’ve seen enough.

I can’t believe the views of Annapurna and ‘Fish Tail’ mountain can be beaten by the ones I got from my hotel in Chhomrong.

As for the panorama, it was covered in cloud.

Had some breakfast at around 7, and hit the trail.

Easy mode.

Continue reading “Day 25: Ghorepani -> Ullari”

Ghorepani is the root of the ‘Poon Hill’ trek. A short trek which gives you a vantage point to some of the mountains I visited more closely on the ABC journey.

For this reason, I wasn’t really too bothered about it. Which was a good thing.

Tadapani -> Ghorepani was a straightforward affair, a few ups and downs’, nothing spectacular.

Easy walk comparatively.

Here’s some pictures from the day.

As you may be able to detect from the photo’s, it was a cloudy day.

All the better for making progress.

Up and down  a load of hills, and into the Jungle.

Tadapani is set on the ridge of a hill west of Chhomrong on the Kimrong River.

The weather is set to turn here in the park, so I don’t know how much longer I’ll be hanging around for.

Going to just do Poon Hill, one of the look out spots, then head off somewhere else.

Stopped in Tadapani.

Everything is double the price of what you might pay elsewhere in Nepal.

 

Or resting.

Took the morning to dry my clothes and various belongings out, and about a day to do the blog.

Sat around for a bit.

Talked to other trekkers. Swapped stories. Mooched down to the hot-springs for an evening soak for my muscles. Called it a day.

These were all taken around Chhomgrong: