Annapurna Base Camp trek is one of the most popular treks in Nepal. The Annapurna Base Camp trek is popularly known as the ABC trek.
All excited. Last year same timeframe we were at Goechala Sikkim with my first Himalayan trek.
This year was plan for EBC but hybrid model of work made us to choose ABC.
Day 1 – So we started at 3 am on 15th reached airport at 4.. to our surprise travel to KTM passport is made a mandatory document along with vaccination certificate .
Two of our trekmates missed their flights along with us as they did not carry their passports.. they tried getting it dunzo but it was already too late.. the adventure spirit still kept them resechuling their flight and both of them reaching Kathmandu by 16th.
However we too reached with lot of efforts as there were lot of checks from the security immigrations etc..
Mandate document is to have a passport by default for any international travel.
Had a walk thru a city called thamel where we took hotel. Food seems to be expensive while shopping looks encouraging on price. Plans to get few trekking pants soon.
Day 2 – Kathmandu while we wait for our two trek partners to Join us we went around the famous temple pasupathinath of lord’s Shiva . Ancient monument and walked from there to boudha stupa… we started our next stop for pokhra where we will get our backup ready and gearup for the trek.
Day 3 – our trek started from Dhandruk as we reach by jeep from pokhra. Just reached chamrong after a trek 11 to 7 pm
Day 4 – had a beautiful morning sunrise and healthy breakfast.. started from Chemron around 8:30 am .. stopped by bamboo for lunch around 2:00 pm.. after lunch started around 3:30 and reached dovan at 4:30 pm where we gonna camp tonight.
Day 5 – we started from dovan to deurali which is 3200 mtrs… It’s was a crazy walk with steps and lot of fresh water streams …
Day 6 – deurali to abc .. the summit whicjwe all were waiting for … Was a decent trek.. weather made it hard.. all tired with low oxygen at 4100mtr.. what a relief after seeing the board of abc which I saw all in photos .
Day 7 – abc we started descending… All way for tea breaks at duroli dovan and bamboo .. it started raining.. crazy walks uphill and downhill.. we decided to stay and take rest
Day 8 – started from bamboo with breakfast towards sinuwa .. tea point .. we reached jhinudhanda and stayed for a final night
Day 9 – got into jeeps towards pokhra .. a wonderful a memorable journey it’s been with ups and downs .
Day 10 – pokhra to kathmandu.. it was again 8 hour journey.. roads are pathetic and the government needs to think a lot about the road ways .. at kathmandu got some shopping for family and finished our brunch to catch up for a cab to airport.
Vistara my first exp and multiple checks in even we got in before flight .
Got less time to catch up connecting flight at Delhi. My friends demanded for some dutyfree alcohol and need to pick up some for them.
