We woke up today at 5:45, packed our shit up real quick like, and bit the road! Our guide told us that we could just get started and he'd catch up, so we hit the trail! One thing that was quite startling was that the trail was mostly flat, if not at a nice down grade! This was quite different then the joke our guide had made a few days earlier about a Nepalese flat: where you go down for a while then up, down then up ( course this averages out to flat after a while :p ). But this was truly flat! What a day! We made it alway down to the first main "town" with out our guide or porter catching up with us (not so slow on flat ground after all!), but even though we didn't have our guide a dog from the village we were staying at followed us the whole way to the first town. We were expecting him to stop at some point, but he would just slink along and keep us company, I named him Vincent :p. Once we got to the main town we had to wait a few minutes there for the guide, then we continued on our way, only about 30 mins more, Vincent left us to our guide at that point (guess he knew we didn't need him any more!). After a short walk longer (short compared to the 5-7 we have been doing!) we were at the main road!! After a while our ride showed up, which we beat btw! And we were on the road to pokara, in the car we got a flight that was an hour and a half earlier arranged and enjoyed the sights...while not walking :p. We killed some time at a hotel in town with internets gettin caught up on what we had missed out over the last 8 days or so and then hit the airport for our plane! The security check through our check in bag was the silliest thing ever...basically jus open then at and peer into he top layer...then root around for a sec then call it good! With a shrug we entered the waiting room to await the plane. It was the same type of little plane we flew in on and dad and I made sure to grab seats on the left side so we could view the mountains as we left. While the cloud cover was very high we were able to spot fishtale, Annapurna south, and one other peak through the clouds...they were at the same height as us :p. 20 more minutes and we were on the ground and headed towards the hotel...what a great trip!! Now to enjoy Kathmandu for a bit longer and spend the last bit of time with my pops! We fly on the same plane to Bangkok tomorrow and then I hop away to visit clay :).
I'll post more of our crazy antics as the arise!
My advice...you must go trekking in the Annapurna region if you ever get the chance!! B-E-A-utiful!!!
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