Tatopani (1244m) ~ Ghasa(2073m)
Total Time: 8.5 hours
Trekking Time: 7 hours
Distance: 17.7km
5:22am
Woke up early again, it's life in mountain, sleep early and wake up early.
Tatopani located in the valley right beside the river, and hills are close at both east and west side of the village. The image above is towards the south, and the sky is getting brighter around 6am.
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6:42am
Packed up, we notice that the peaks of Nilgiri have been lit up while we are waiting for our breakfast at the outdoor dinning area. On the left is Nilgiri Central 6940m, and on the right is Nilgiri South 6839m.
7:20am
Finish our breakfast and couldn't resist to take one more shot of Nilgiri before leaving Tatopani
7:55am
Some member getting lazy with the walk, hence we started late today, it's not a good thing. It a peak travel season for Nepal in October and November, the weather is good, the air is clean, good visibility, and no too cold. But there are limited tea house along the route, and most people are following the same itinerary. If we arrive our destination late, we might couldn't get any room. But I found that this isn't a issue in Annapurna area, there are tea houses for every 1 to 2 hours walk. Aside from the room, being late also may cause you walking after the sunset, it's cold and dark, and there is not fun about it.
Today also the day we began to trek on the road where buses and jeeps pass by, hence it gotta be a dusty day.
A friend commented on my Facebook saying that these people are so poor and so pity. But he didn't notice the smile on their face, though they have to work hard to survive, but they have no dept. Unlike us, bearing an invisible burden loans of education, vehicle, and housing. We might possess more than them, but we know no much about happiness.
Lots of buses and jeep
An old lady washing her pots at a stream beside the road by applying mud and rubbing on them. I walk to her and say "Photo?", she didn't say anything. So I raise my camera up and she looking right to the lens. When I came back to Malaysia and did some processing on the pieces, then I only realized that she is actually smiling for the shot. Actually most local will say "No photo" once they saw the tourist coming with a camera, hence it is good to ask before taking any portrait of them.
It's a good day with clear blue sky, and the flowers bloom vividly under the sunshine.
It is possible to do this route up to the gate of Muktinath Temple at 3800m elevation.
8:50am
Gently ascend all the way from Tatopani, this is a easy day. The kids stop walking while they saw me from the other side of the bridge, so I wave at them, then they begin to run.
We will trek along with Kali Gandaki river from Tatopani until we reach Kagbeni, then we climb further up to Muktinath. We have been told that we will meet the deepest gorge in the world as we trek along with the river.
From Tatopani, we could see most houses are painted in white, and the flowers is for Tihar Festival.
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Probably preparing to keep some mutton for the winter
11am
Stop by Rupche Chahara waterfall and to have our lunch here, our guide used to tell us to take lunch around 11am as this is the time where Nepali usually have their 1st meal of the day, and they only serve 2 meals in a day.
12:50pm
Almost 2 hours rest, and we back on the route.
Although it's not raining season, if you are traveling in a bus, do remember cover your bag with rain cover.
Windy, dusty, and long way to go. It looks different with what we have seen in last few days.
Our porter told us that there is a bus fell off from the cliff around this area in May, none were survived. There is at least few cases like this every year in Nepal, especially during the summer where it often raining and landslide happen on the mountain area. We have the chance to try on the bus on this road as our flight from Jomsom has been cancelled due to the weather. It's not a relaxing ride especially when you saw there is another bus coming from the other side.
This is the deepest part we have seen, I didn't walk on the bridge, Couldn't see the river from the cliff, but I can hear it.
Spotted something moving on the other side of the slope.
Goats on the steep slope, I wonder if they are wild?
Now we saw the village, that means we are almost done for today.
This is Ghasa, but we will walk further into the village for the tea house that we are going to spend a night.
An old man is working on with some bamboo
We arrived tea house around 4pm, everybody got muscle aching today.
The dinning room of the tea house with Tibetan style, it look so warm here.
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Adventure Mountain Guide Rabin Gurung
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