Ah, to be writing on my private blog. I have written a less personal/overly positive version of this for the trekking company I travelled with, but here i can truly write about how unfit i felt!! Also to note- i think i have mixed up some photos on these so possibly the wrong days on these posts….sigh #professional.
An amazing trek on part of the Manaslu circuit- I went with my sister and it was such a special way to start my first trip to Nepal. I’d arrived in Nepal three days previously and we’d been tearing around in the monsoon rain trying to sort permits for this restricted trekking area- not easy. I was glad to be back in Asia after so long since i’d been here.
The day before this hike we had a ten hour bus journey from Kathmandu- dust swirling, horns tooting, Nepali pop music blasting on the TV. We had a bumpy ride when the real road ran out and also stopped to deliver some tiles to someones house at one point. We changed buses in Arugat and finally wended our way into Soti Khola at 6pm. Early dinner and early night, i was excited to begin walking.
It turned out to be much more humid than i’d anticipated and i wished i’d bought a cap to stop my nose burning. Some awesome track to walk along next to the pounding river kept us entertained, as well as a few landslides/mudslides we had to climb over. Our guide, Pasang, helped me a lot and i realised i was a lot slower walker than Cath, so we decide she could carry the water for the trip! We had a grest break stop by one of many suspension bridges and i had a lifesaving coca cola (first of many) before we rolled into Macchakhola at around 2pm. Some people were walking on to the next village of Kholabesi but we’d planned to stop here and i was done for the day and verging on heatstroke. I lay with a wet flannel on my face for the remainder of the afternoon before dinner. We stayed in a quiet hotel and could see the mules by the river resting from their day carrying goods, their bells clinking gently as they grazed. Peaceful.
about 6 hrs walking.
1Year/52Hikes 2019 