Monday, October 10, 2005
This is a photo of the valley that we trekked along, up, over, and then back down. Nepal trails are notoriously riddled with flagstoned steps, so this was much more joint-breaking than I anticipated. It took 3 days of beachside massages in Thailand to recover from the trek! (For more on Nepal trails see longer text entry below).
After sunrise, we had to start back the way we came, because the Maoists told us to, basically (see long entry further below). This turned out to be a good thing because I inadvertently deleted the 100+ images I had taken already up to that point, and enabled me to retake some photos from the trail. This is a detail of a stupa being refreshed in time for the Hindu Dasain festival starting the next day. Even though the stupa is Buddhist, and Nepal is a Hindu Kingdom, it is unique because its Hinduism and Buddhism are intimately intertwined and festivals for one religion typically incorporate reasons to celebrate the other.
On the fourth day of the trek, we hiked up to Poon Hill to watch the sunrise over the (finally) cloudless Annapurna range. We started out at 4:30 and somehow, amazingly, I didn't even need an alarm clock. I will post a series of sunrise shots here starting with the most revealed and working back in time.
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