Annapurna Base Camp(ABC)trekking

ABC....

Annapurna Base Camp(ABC) is one of the most popular trekking destination in the world. It lies in the north-central part of Nepal stretching from Lamjung Himal to the Kali Gandaki in the west and to the Marshyangdi in the east.Offering 360 degree dramatic Himalayan Panorama at its base Mount Annapurna I 8091m from the sea level. It is ranking 10th highest peak among 14 eight-thousanders in the world. This refreshing trek to Annapurna Base Camp goes through beautiful natural scenery of waterfalls, villages, farmlands, rhododendron forests, mountain vistas and unique Nepal cultural experience.ABC trek starts from  Pokhara at a mere height of around 800 meters to a high elevation of 4130 meters with regular acclimatization process. We also trek through a various geographical and cultural differences with amazing ranges of flora and fauna in between. Needless to say that throughout this trekking journey we get to enjoy the sheer magnificence of the Himalayas, including two mountains that are above eight thousand meters - Mt. Annapurna (8091 m) and Mt. Dhaulagiri (8167m); warm and welcome hospitality and rich culture of the local community and the radiance of nature. Just imagine being in the company of some of the highest mountains on earth and the magnificence of the sunrise over the snow-capped Himalayas.

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Our Experiences 

This map is copied from Internet #not an official map

Finally our exam was over. We (Prashant, Pramesh,krishna, Bigya, Manju, Niva and Pankaj(Me)) set a plan to spent a holiday at Annapurna Base Camp(ABC).Our journey started from Kalanki, Kathamndu. We booked the ticket of micro bus from Kalanki to Pokhara. Starting of the journey was really intresting. After we reached to Pokhara and spent one night with full of masti. We boat, took a cycle ride and many more to explain.

Day 1 (Pokhara-Nayapul-Ghandruk):

Who can help us?

We woke up early, had breakfast and took a van from the hotel we had stayed , reached Nayapul .We had trouble before reaching to Syauli Bazar. The road was narrow and due to rain the van  stocked in the mud . Finally the local van helped to get out . The driver was from Syauli Bazar and had hotel. We had a breakfast in the same hotel and moved to Ghandruk.. After we had breakfast we started the journey.   

We climbed up hills, with the stairs. It was hard. Any way we managed and finally reached Ghandruk. Two friends Prashant and    Pramesh had already reached and booked the hotel. After we arrived they showed the room. They were already refreshed .I took a cold sour. It was like in the heaven- cold water in the warmer body-really refreshed the tiredness. And finally three friends Niva, Manju and Bigya arrived. They also were refreshed. Then we took some photo with background of Annapurna Mountain, visit the local school, hydro power. After we had dinner we played cards.

It was coincident that our one of the friend Kirshna met his friend. But when Krishna phoned his friends who had moved from ghandruk to pokhara had faced the problem of leach. He said that there were so many leach that we cannot imagine.

A program at school

(We spent two days in Ghandruk. We were from Kathmandu University and studying (Electrical and Electronics Engineering), so we set one day program in Shree Meshram Baraha Secondary school and taught about renewable energy, solar system, electric hazards and its prevention. I think it was fruitful job. )

View from Shree Meshram Temple

At the top of Shree Meshram Temple

It was Shree Meshram Baraha temple which was in the top of the Ghandruk. We finally decided to go there. So we all seven again moved uphill's. But our one of the friends Niva couldn't move, she returned to hotel. We asked locals how much time is needed to reached the temple. Everybody answer about 10 minutes but we had already climbed for 20 minutes. Finally after 30 minutes we reached in the temple. The view of Annapuran and Machhapuchre was really fantastic. We were above the cloud. That is Nepal, I realized. I came to know beauty hidden inside the Ghandruk. We returned after clicking some photo.:)

  

Day 2 (Ghandruk- Chmorong)

"We all are tired", Resting

After we had breakfast, we managed the salt, plastic bags (to cover bad- for rain), some noodles and we moved to Chmorong. I think it was the hardest part of the trek

. We moved uphill trying to push ourselves, steeper hills. I still know how hard it was to reach the top. There was no any shop to buy food. Even small bites of the Snickers and a drop of water were important for us. We realized it.  We had the snacks and managed.  We were really tired.  This was one of the most intensive day of trek. Finally we reached Chmorong(2100m) The weather was fine. Chomrong was really the beautiful place I had imagined. We were able to see Macchapuchre (Fishtail) very clearly. We are Nepali and off course we ordered Dal bhat.  And the most interesting part is that i had not imagined to drink mohi(Curd stirred with water).  We were tired. We slept. The bed was small to slip. So we

At Chmorong

four boys join the bed and slept. 

It was our first trek. So we had no idea how to manage it. When we came to Chmorong we realized that our bag was heavier. All of decided to leave some cloths at the hotel and take it back after returning from ABC.

Day 3(Chmorong-Bamboo-Himalaya)

Early in the morning we moved from Chmorong. It was much easier with the lighter bag and we were going down the hills. But again big hills stood in front of us. It was not harder than the first day- but off course climbing up the hills is the harder part than moving down. We reached to Sinwa(2340) and had meal. We took rest for some time. Tourist price -oh my god. We filled the water bottle. The hotel owner asked to pay for water too. We were socked. It was RS100 a bottle. We had filled two bottle. After bargning we paid RS 100 .Our journey started again. We began in dark Bamboo forest going against river flow.  We were in our own world. Our life was interesting. We all felt like "Into The Wild" when passing through the jungle. We were moving up and up.  Girls were left behind. We waited for then in the Bamboo. We took the photo of the waterfall in the bamboo. It was different then the other. When we saw it the water falls like the tiger and lion. We laughed. It was again the up hills. We started to move and finally reached Himalaya(2900m).

At Himalaya

The hotel was really expensive so as the food. Really we do not like the hotel owner. He was not friendly as other hotel owner. We couldn't do anything. That was only the hotel in Himalaya. There was another hotel in Deurali, but due the local suggestion we didn't move up hill.

We ordered fried rice. Oh my god. One person cannot eat that much fried rice. So we two ate one plate. We didn't eat anything in night. Our stomach were full with fried rice.

Day 4 (Himalaya-MBC-ABC)

We had butter and jam in the morning and left Himalaya and reached Deurali(3200m). It was not harder to reach because it was nearer from Himalaya. The hotel owner was much friendly. We again eat Dal Bhat. Up to there was the cell phone tower. But we had to go to one corner to phone. All the cells phone and camera was charged. We rest for some time. After we had the lunch we moved to MBC.  We were in dilemma to stay at MBC or at ABC.  Finally we decided to stay at ABC. We walked much slower than other day because it was not much far. The weather was good at Deurali but when we moved up we couldn't see anything. The weather was fuggy. We reached MBC. Our some of the friends were little farther than us. Guide helped us much while reaching to MBC. They gave their water to drink and helped us. We talked to the Guide, and finally reached to MBC. I couldn't remember there name but they were nice to all.

WE"At ABC"

Me, Niva, Manju,Krishna and Bigya decided to rest at MBC. MBC was really beautiful. We ordered tea. I had makai and bhatmans we ate with the black tea. We rest for some time and again started our journey. It took about an hour to reached ABC. Due to foggy weather it was really a suspence where exact is ABC. We saw a big stones like house wall, but when we go slower it was a stone. Suspensly we reached ABC (4310m).

 Other friends were waiting us. Hotel owner were really funny guy. We couldn't see anything. We even didn't  knew where are the mountains. We had black tea in the kitchen room. Suddenly the weather changed and we were able to see the mountains. It was like a wow moment when we saw mountains surrounding us at 360º. We took as many photos we can. After some time again it was foggy.

At ABC

The kitchen hall was big. There were lot of tourist and we including Nepali tourist. We talked to all of them. The room was hot. Some of the friends ate fried rice and some of them ordered Dal Bhat and off course I ordered Dal Bhat(RS 450).  For refreshment we ordered pizza (don't remember price around RS-1100– we ate pizza). We sang song and went to bed after some time. Bed was like frozen. It took an hour to get hot. That day was of full moon and it was raining outside.

In the kitchen room was full of flag of different country, caps and other things with their name and signature. We also decided to leave something in ABC. Fortunately our friends Niva had cap from Kathmandu University and she agreed to leave in ABC

Do you see the cap?

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Day 5(ABC-Bamboo)

Girls team bang the door early in the morning. We woke up and saw the mountain more clearly than ever. It was beautiful really the master piece given to Nepali from the god. We click some photo. Early in the morning the weather was fine. We took some photo.  We had breakfast. All of them wrote name and signature it and we left the cap in the kitchen room.

While returning from ABC the weather was fine.  The place was really beautiful. It was like Switzerland even though we had not gone Switzerland we have seen in TV. It was exactly the same. We love the green grass on the way with beautiful White Mountains on the background. We reached Deurali and waited for the girls. We had target to go to Chmorong today. They were almost two hours let. We came to know that Niva had a problem in leg. So after having lunch we left slowly and reached bamboo. That was our today's destination although it was far less than our target.

The salt we had carried was of no use. So we threw all the salts we had carried.

Day 6(Bamboo-Chmorong-Pokhara)

After having breakfast we left Bamboo. We reached Chmorong much early then we had thought.  We had launch. Hotel owner gave the cloths we had left. The bag was heavy then before. But it was not only me. ;) . We had thought we had to stay in between Chmorong and payapool .Our sped was fast. So we didn't have to stay in between. We came to Syauli Bazar through new bridge.

In the way there were many leaches than we had imagined. What can we do we had already threw the salt. So I walked as fast as I could so do my friends did.

 Through syauli Bazar we came Naya pool and finally to Pokhara.  We came in the same hotel where we had stayed last time.

Next day same friends went for paragliding.  Finally another day we came to Kathmandu-separated from Kalanki  where we had started journey to ABC 

Our ABC Team
Bigya Paudyal
Manju Neupane
Niva Suwal
Pramesh Gautam
Krishna Joshi
Prashant Shah
Pankaj Regmi(me)