Day 01: Arrive at Kathmandu,Height (1350m)
Arrival in Kathmandu Airport & transfer to the hotel.
Day 02: Kathmandu Duration(4 hrs/1350m)
Half day sightseeing of Kathmandu Valley. O/N Hotel.
Day 03 Kathamandu – Pokhara (Duration (6 hrs/960m)
Drive or fly to Pokhara & over night at Hotel.
Day 04 Pokhra-Dhampus (Duration (30minute drive and 2 hrs trek/1600m)
Breakfast & drive to Phedi via Tibetan camp and steep climb up to Dhampus village one of the big Gurung village. Good views of Mt.Annapurnas.
Day 05 Dhampus - Forest camp (6 hrs/2480m)
Here starts our secret trail leaving tourists, other trekker behind. Trek enter an enchanted forest of birch, giant rhododendron, mountain oak, maple, hemlock and daphnia, camping in a small clearing far from the beaten trail.
Day 06 Forest camp-Humal (5hrs/3150m)
As the climb continues, we get to see the unique flora in the woods that look out on to thrilling panoramas towards Hiunchuli and the knife-sharp traverse towards Annapurna South. Far below, to left, can see the Modi Khola valley leading up into the Annapurna sanctuary. Mt Fishtail can be seen ever-closer from here.
Day 07 Humal - Guhe (4hrs/4100m)
Just a short steep climb & out of forest. A ridge, now grassy and sometimes under snow, takes us up to high camp which we reach at lunch time & here a second consecutive afternoon is spent awestruck with the views and acclimatizing. Annapurna South seems to be in touching distance.
Day 08 Ghue - Machapuchhare Base Camp (All day/4100m)
Breakfast will be earlier than usual. Then with packed lunch, set off to the mission . Conditions being favorable, trip can reach up to 5000m and only the crest of Mardi Himal itself separates from the south face of Machhapuchare. The great ice fields and blue glaciers of the Sanctuary wall lie below. Annapurna I, highest of all is beyond, and around, in an arc from horizon to horizon, from Dhaulagiri to the Mustang, a dozen or more. A place, a time, a view that is almost impossible to equall and earned it. Whatever achievement, by 1:00pm and back trip to camp.
Day 09 Ghue-Sedding(Duration: 7hrs
Height: 1500m After a relaxed breakfast, tired bodies make an unhurried descent through the shade of the forest, and out onto terraced fields, down 1600m in all. This is a different route down-down to the upper Mardi Khola, the torrent that has been the ice and snow of the Mardi Himal. Although remote and still away from the much-used ‘Tea – house’ trekking routes, our expedition now takes on the moods of the warm valley and the friendly villages. Here, we make our way along the banks of the Mardi Khola from the hill – side village or siding, down through the lovely fields, past the simple farms and over the interesting bridges. There is no doubting this is indeed the idyllic Nepali countryside.
Day 10 Sedding (…./1500 m)
Mardi Pul – 1,160m
So the Earth does have flat places! The path from siding now follows the contour of the river valley gradually down between the pastures and through the Tamang and Gurung villages. Our tents, familiar to us in rugged mountain landscape, look a little incongruous this evening planted here among the paddy.
Day 11 Sedding - Thulo chaur
Day 12 Thulo chaur - Ghachock
Day 13 Ghachock – Pokhara 3 hrs walk and 1hrs drive. Height: 960m
There are just a few hours of walking – the trail skirts an outcrop – there’s the road, there’s our transport, and soon we’re back in Pokhara for our last lunch. This last afternoon is spent showering and relaxing. Some have enough energy for rowing on the lake, others only for lounging in pie shops.
Day 14 Pokhara – Kathamandu
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