João Almeida

🗺 📸 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.

🚶🏔️ 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.

Some days all that there’s to tell is the never ending hopping between roadside restaurants, until the final destination.

The sheer size of Nepal’s largest stupa easily imposes itself onto all the crowds and noise circling it.

Views from the ✈️: the rugged landscape of South Iran and Pakistan.