A kinda long stopover in Dubai starts now…
Amazing the “addition” of nepalis for videocalls, now I understand why they have really big data plans!
Pashupatinath, where cheering and mourning happen side by side…
Finally time to give Bhaktapur its well deserved slow place, because good things don’t like rushing out.
Don’t like to give gear lessons to anyone, each is free to choose what works for them, but having a large photographer group in the narrow cities of Bhaktapur, each with bulky, full frame, vertical grip DLSRs along huge telephoto lenses and big backpacks might be a bit too much.
Time to say goodbye to this view and move closer to Kathmandu!
🗺 📸 Panauti, a quiet, slow paced, no frenzy Nepali historic town for a change.
Não querendo generalizar, mas se há turista que literalmente se borrifa no resto são grupos de franceses, seja para locais ou outros turistas. Parece que estão numa pequena bolha francesa…
🗺 📸 Hike in the Kathmandu Valley countryside, to reach Namo Buddha, one of Nepal’s holy Buddhist places. Made me realize I still have things to do at Bodhanauth, let’s see if I can squeeze that when I returned to Kathmandu.
🗺 📸 Any city looks better by dawn, but Patan is really a place best seen under the first rays of light. Not only because the lack of tourists that haven’t arrived yet from the day tours from Kathmandu, but mostly from its slow awakening, with the daily routines coming to life, specially the visit to the temples at the beginning of the day.
🗺 📸 Just went for a quick night stroll around my hotel, for real!
🚶🏔️ Day 9 - Ghandruk to Nayapool
That’s a wrap! …on the trekking part.
🚶🏔️ Day 8 - Chhomrong to Ghandruk
Let’s just ignore the steep downhill and uphill midday, and focus on the bucolic countryside of Nepal that we started and ended the day.
The bliss of the first good hot shower in a week, one with a really good flow of warm water running on your back, is something you can’t really explain. Specially when you weren’t counting on it for today… 😊😊
🚶🏔️ Day 6 - Annapurna Base Camp to Dovan.
Time to leave the high peaks, with an early sunrise over the Annapurna, and move down, down, back to the forests.
Day 5 - Machhapuchhre Base Camp to Annapurna Base Camp.
A small climb between base camps, although any climb at this altitude can make you breed a lot faster, but the relatively short walk had plenty of mountains to show us!
Day 4 - Dovan to Machhapuchhre Base Camp
Going up, up in the mountains, but often what’s over there isn’t a bright sunny day.
🚶🏔️ Day 3 - Chhomrong to Dovan
In the shadow of Machhapuchre. The entire day was done along the sacred mountain, with its iconic fish tail peak, despite most of the times being hidden behind the thick clouds or dense forest.
🚶🏔️ Day 2 - Landruk to Chhomrong
Still low in the valleys, moving between the small villages and the cable bridges that connect them.
🚶🏔️ Day 1 - Siwai to Landruk
Time to start moving the legs, and get used to what’s coming.
