TREKKING IN NEPAL DAY 1-3

Day 1: Betrawati - Manigoan

A 4hr jeep ride from Kathmandu took us to our trailhead, Betrawati at 2,200ft. We stopped briefly at this hamlet for lunch. Here, my little boy is surveying his vast, new playground

Betrawati Lunch Stop

From Betrawati we set off on our trek, overburdened with our baggages, tents, food and members. Here, our motley crew on one of our numerous Stop-Breaks.

The key ditty on a Nepali trek is, Break, Break, Break, otherwise your limbs would Ache, Ache, Ache !

Trailing the Trisili Khola, we finally made it to the alpine valley of Manigoan, our first overnight campsite at 4,000ft

Manigoan Day 2: Thare - Ramche

Our journey was not without thrills which presented itself just after morning tea break of Day2 when we were faced with a dizzy terrain of loose rock and scree with barely a foothold in some places and featuring sheer drops of hundreds of feet in others. This was the place we dubbed, the Danger Cliff where the track had been wiped out by landslide. The sherpa bore my little one on his shoulders and incredibly seemed to sail across while I had to go down almost on all fours and crawled over to where the good track meets the rubble.

Danger Cliff

After clearing the Danger Cliff we passed the village of Ramache at 5,500ft. Pressing on to Thare at 6,600ft our second overnight stop we encountered more lost remote villages

Sweet slumbering valleys on route to Ramche

Remote villages on the trek to Thare 6,600ft

Day 3: Dunche

...the hills are alive with the sound of laughter, and of songs and of faith ......Buddhist shrines and stupas dot the hillsides enroute to Dhunche. The Nepalese love singing and despite their heavy loads they would still sing their hearts out making the countryside reverbrate with the sound of music. Our group also carried a small hand drum and marching to the sound of drumbeats certainly made our loads lighter.

the hills are alive ...

The zinc and wooden rooftops in this village are weighted down with rocks.
The villagers are drying chillis, pounding corn, cutting wood.