Well this will be our last full day trekking! We had originally planed to have a four hour hike on the ninth day then drive back to pokara, but we decided to go an extra hour or two today to make it farther south and then we'll wake up early tomorrow morning and make it into town with hopes of catching a much earlier plane back to Kathmandu!
The first part of our journey today was down hill for a bit and then all the way back up to the top of chomgrong! Down and then back up...as usual! To pass the time I decided to count the steps up to the top of chomgrong...what a long ordeal!! By the time I got to the top I was at 2088 steps (this was counting things that looked like real steps not just rocks that I had to step over...so it's rough...but around 2200 steps! Wow!). Needless to say it was quite a ways up! The rest of the valley was beautiful as usual...waterfalls and the like! We continued much of the day along the river that we have been following from the source since ABC...not too often to you get to see the birth of a river...at his point much of it is whet water and flowing quite quickly!! We stopped at one waterfall area before lunch and rinsed our faces and hands in the cool mountain water and I also found a sweet egg shaped rock...it might be marble but I'm not sure. Lunch was good...the standard macaroni I've been having for the last few days...and then back down the trail for a few more hours!!
Fantastic!!! Finally we arrive at a lodge that has hot water! Well maybe not exactly hot, but warm enough! The shower was a concrete room with mold and other moss growing in it, no lights besides a window in one wall, but it was the best shower that I can remember in quite a while!! At least 7days :p. This was also a good opportunity to don some new clothes, so my sleep and travels tomorrow will be quite comfy! After he showers dad and I settled in for the night, I finished my book and he got bit laptop and other things-a-chargin. Tomorrow we have just 2.5 hours to hike out and then a hour or so ride into town! Hopefully we will be able to catch an earlier plane and get almost a full day in Kathmandu before we have to fly out! This trek has been all ups and downs and amazing views all around! Many more times then once have I had my breath taken away form the sights, but I Juliet say it will be good to get out of the mountains for a bit and rest my weary legs :p
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