Archive for December, 2007
Food and Accommodation
By Thomas on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
The Annapurna Circuit was only opened to tourism in 1977. What started out as “teahouse trekking” where tourists stayed in simple teahouses and ate local dishes, has become an almost luxurious experience. I’m using the word “luxurious” in a relative sense because we expected » Continue reading this post »
Merry Christmas from Nepal
By Tony and Thomas on December 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Encountering the Maoists
By Thomas on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Tony and I had been walking for seven hours and were only 45 minutes away from Tal, where we would spend the night, when we ran into a very upset French couple. “Za Maoists are about ten minutes from ‘ere and are demanding money!” the Frenchman exclaimed and told us that they had to pay the equivalent of $20 each (100 rupees for each day of hiking on the circuit). We were left standing alone on the trail with a sinking feeling in our stomachs because we had heard about violence » Continue reading this post »
Jungles and Canyons
By Tony on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Our first leg of the Annapurna Circuit is a 5-day stretch along the Marsyangdi River. Beginning in a region of terraced fields and Gurung villages, the narrow path leads through a series » Continue reading this post »
Trekking the Annapurnas
By Thomas on December 22, 2007 | No Comments »
The first and most important item on our what-to-do-in-Nepal list was hiking the Annapurna Circuit, one of the most popular trekking routes in the world. Luckily, we’ll be trekking somewhat out of season, so we hope that we won’t be plodding along the trails with a million other tourists.
The Annapurna range, part of the Himalayas, is surrounded by the Annapurna Circuit, an epic trail of » Continue reading this post »
