There and back again.

Namaste!
My friend Helen and I had 10 days of hard walking, leading us right up into the Annapurna Sanctuary and then back.  We had about 8 days when we were too remote and high for wheeled vehicles, so unusually quiet. This blog page gives a small taste of some of the sights we experienced during our fabulous trek.

The first day was very steeply uphill, out of the valley pictured
above. Hard work and hot, and I had a stomach upset too!

Breakfast with a view, day 2

Didi's shop in Landruck, which sold almost everything a
trekker could want; beer, coke, toilet rolls, snickers bars etc.

Our lovely guide and porter, Bhima and Kalpana outside Captain
Laliguran's guest house in Landruck. Early morning day 3

Homework time - English homework being done in the early morning before school.

Would you trust this bridge?? We did!

Lodges for trekkers at Bamboo. It snowed heavily during
the night whilst we stayed here on day 5.

Chomrong village where we stayed on day 3 and 9, perched above the cliff.
This was the area featured in the documentary film
"The Honey Hunters of Nepal"

Steps - over 3000 from the valley bottom to our lodge in Chomrong!

This dog adopted us for three days,
sleeping on our doorstep and following us right
 up to Annapurna Base Camp. We did feed it!

Washing on the line at Annapurna Base Camp.

Traditional beehives fascinated Helen, a bee keeper herself

The lush Bamboo forest, with the path winding through it.

One of the frequent buffalo we met on the path.

Beautiful orchids growing on a rock face.

Ghandruk, a traditional Gurung village where
we stayed on day 10.

Looking back up at the peak of Machhepulchhre from lower down the valley, on the way back.