Annapurna Base Camp Journey_Part 1

This album contains photos from Kathmandu to Poon Hill: 

(a) arrive in Kathmandu, shopping and welcoming dinner; 

(b) fly to Pokhara; 

(c) bus transfer to Nayapul, trek to Tikhedhunga; 

(d) trek to Ghorepani, and hike to Poon Hill.

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Ten days of trekking at Annapurna Base Camp (ABC) from 14 to 26 October 2018 with trekking service provided by trekking agent, Mr Cheban Devkota of Manaslu Adventure Treks (Pvt.) Ltd.

 Shopping at Thamel, Kathmandu

Lodges and Facilities – Most of the lodges are either new or renovated. In accordance with the changing time, most of the lodges provide service to charge handphones at a nominal fee of about 200 Nepalese Rupee (about RM 7). As to the WIFI service, the data line-speed at many of the lodges was slow. The toilet walls are plastered with tiles that give a pleasant looking; they do have the squatting and sitting type.

 Welcoming dinner by trekking agent, Mr Cheban (far right)

Hot-water Bath – Most of the lodges use solar-powered heating elements to heat up the tank of water, and charged 200 Nepalese Rupee per hot-water bath. A few of the team members complained that the water was not hot at all for a comfortable bath at the end of a trekking day.

 Boarding the plane to Pokhara

Meals – There is a good system of standardizing the menu, consistently applicable to almost all the lodges. That would make ordering easier. Since we were not eating meat when trekking, ordering of food was mostly confined to noodle, rice, fried-rice, momo, vegetable, potato, pizza, vegetable curry or soup. The Korean instant noodle, which was very popular among the lodges, was really hot and spicy.

 ABC trek check-point at Nayapul, the starting point of ABC trekking

Lighting – all lodges use energy-saving light bulbs that lighted up the entire lodge and rooms. A few of the team members were puzzled asking me why there was headlamp in my checklist. Ten years ago when I went trekking in Nepal, we need headlamps to move around at night.

 First overnight in lodge at Tikhedhunga

Overnight at Ghorepani and hike to Poon Hill at 5:00 a.m. the following morning

 At Poon Hill

Sunrise at Poon Hill at 6:10 a.m.

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Do CLICK HERE for Part 2 of the journey.

Posted by KC Leong