We got up early for a tough day ahead of us. Including a stairway of 3280 stone steps! and a elevation gain of 4200ft ! But with spectacular views along the way and a hike through a huge rhododendron forest. Arrived in Ghorepani (Alt. 8400ft) in the afternoon, exhausted but happy. OK, mostly happy about the end of today's hike ;) Since none of the Sunny Hotel rooms have heating and temperatures dropped to freezing point everyone huddled together in the tea ho...

Got picked up by my mountain guide Bunu and our porter Tulsi (estimated age: 13!) Needless to say none of us would let her carry our bags. But WTF, shouldn't she be in school? But then again, later that day we saw another teenage girl carrying a 30kg! rice bag up the mountain. Nuts! Then we headed for the airport to pick up the other traveler Francis and were on our way to the starting point of the trek to the Annapurna Base Camp or "ABC" about an hour away f...

Took it easy today and went down to the lake to Helen's Cafe for breakfast and to catch up on my travel blog. Checked out Old Town Pokhara, or what's left of it. Strolled around the market place and packed my backpack for the 10-Day Trek.Liess es ruhig angehen heute und ging hinunter zum See fuer's Fruehstueck in Helen's Cafe. Trug meinen TravelBlog nach, schaute mir Pokhara's Altstadt an, oder was davon noch uebrig ist und packte meinen Rucks...

Slept in, got a nice Nepalese breakfast, chatted with the hotel staff, got my hiking boot repaired and strolled through Old Town Pokhara (or what is left of it) and the big colorful market place (today is another holiday, so was yesterday as well as tomorrow or the next 3 weeks...)Schlief aus, bestellte ein leckeres nepalesisches Fruehstueck, quatschte mit den Hotelangestellten, liess meinen Wanderschuh reparieren, spazierte durch die Altstadt von Pokhara (oder d...

Got up early to catch the 7 AM bus to Pokhara. Grabbed some last minute chocolate filled bread for breakfast from a street vendor but realized in the bus that it must have been baked the day before... Oh well, I forced it down. The drive out of Kathmandu was pretty wild. The long and winding road down into the valley with its narrow pothole-riddled lanes and sheer cliffs gives you plenty of fodder for your imagination...After a 7-hour shaky bus ride in which we w...