Travel with Purpose. Travel at the Speed of Teja
We would ascend another 1000m on the sixth day, aiming to spend the night in Deurali at 3230m ASL. Along the way, near Dovan, we would pass by a local temple, said my guide. I had not heard of highland temples mentioned before, in my pre-trip research. I’d come to Annapurna almost straight from Kathmandu, and…
Day 5 of the trek roused itself as from the fog of slumber. The sun rose muffled by cloud all over the peaks, and the balconies of the inn were damp with the night’s moisture. We would leave the normally inhabited areas of the highlands that day, and enter the Annapurna Sanctuary zone. Gradually, the…
Perhaps the goddess took pity on me. But the fingers of fog parted from about the Annapurnas in the morning of the fourth day. For a lingering moment in the cold early morning, she showed me a little teasing glimpse of Machapuchare peak – the Fishtail mountain. This was a peak I had seen before,…
Poon Hill! I suddenly remembered, once my sleepy brain processed the knock on my door. I leapt out of bed and opened it. My guide Devi was on the other side. By this time, she would have finished her reconnaissance. Are we headed out or not? Poon Hill – fogged in the monsoon…
The morning mist turned into a blanket of fog over breakfast. In the space of a night, the warm humidity of the previous day shifted to thick damp. It was my first hint of Annapurna in the monsoon season. We would trek to Ghorepani that day. My guide hinted that it would be a harder…
My female trekking guide hefted my backpack with one arm, testing the weight. She glanced at my red hiking day bag, which I would carry myself. “You can move more things into the backpack,” she said. “It’s still light.” Mildly astonished, I decided to shift a change of clothes into the backpack, but otherwise I…
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