The end of the trek! Our guide had suggested breakfast at 7.30 so that we could leave at 8 and get a taxi back to Pokhara around 12, and also told us that the walk was mainly flat. So untrue. After some very questionable porridge we set off, and again we were going up and down a lot. By this point I was just very excited for the trek to be over and was practically running along, until we came to an area full of leeches. It was truly grim, and we spent ages getting them off ourselves and each other. Our guide Ganesh had a small rag full of salt and showed us how to use this to easily remove the leeches which was great, though the sheer quantity of them meant that none of us escaped leech free.
At one point Ganesh took us off path and said that this was because a lot of landslides had been happening on the route he usually took. At one point he pointed over to this path we would have taken and showed us an active landslide happening then! Lucky escape. The walk seemed to go on forever; he said we were about an hour away when we were actually over 2, and by the time we arrived at the taxi point at half 1 we were all shattered. Fortunately I got a lot of sleep in the taxi ride back to Pokhara, where we then collected our big bags and headed to our room. We said goodbye to Ganesh and tipped him, and then headed out for food. It was half 3 by this point and we were all starving!
After lunch we came back to the hostel and had some very well needed showers and washed our clothes. I've never felt so clean! We then sorted out our stuff for a while, before going to get some breakfast for the following day and taking advantage of a cheap cocktail deal at a lakeside restaurant. By the time we'd had our drinks it was 9pm and after so many tiring days we headed to bed ready for another early wake up.
Laura x
At one point Ganesh took us off path and said that this was because a lot of landslides had been happening on the route he usually took. At one point he pointed over to this path we would have taken and showed us an active landslide happening then! Lucky escape. The walk seemed to go on forever; he said we were about an hour away when we were actually over 2, and by the time we arrived at the taxi point at half 1 we were all shattered. Fortunately I got a lot of sleep in the taxi ride back to Pokhara, where we then collected our big bags and headed to our room. We said goodbye to Ganesh and tipped him, and then headed out for food. It was half 3 by this point and we were all starving!
After lunch we came back to the hostel and had some very well needed showers and washed our clothes. I've never felt so clean! We then sorted out our stuff for a while, before going to get some breakfast for the following day and taking advantage of a cheap cocktail deal at a lakeside restaurant. By the time we'd had our drinks it was 9pm and after so many tiring days we headed to bed ready for another early wake up.
Laura x
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