Annapurna circuit trek. Nepal Dec 2012

Ok. I think it's 5'th day in mountains. In beginning we were leaving on morning from Pokhara with local bus. Was experince to go misty roads with locals. Someone was carrying living rooster on plastic bag and i got the feeling that now we are going like locals do :) First was about 4 hours on bus and after that we waited to get Jeep. We were waiting about hour and were seeing hilarious view of 2 male cops walking hand to hand, nightsticks another hand. Local custom here is that men can walk hand to hand and also women, but not couples :)

So Jeep ride was taking maybe another 3-4 hours and on road we were stopping to help locals lifting up heavy transformer with the rope :) 

After that we continued for a while narrow and bouncing mountain roads, sometimes was little scary to see that about half metre was huge drop down from hill :)

First night we were spending on village called Chyamche (1430 m). On morning we started 6 hours hiking to next village Bagarchap (2160 m) 

After night there continuing to Chame (2670 m). Hikes on day was average 6 hours and on Chame it started to be quite cold because there is not so good insulations and warming on houses so we were sitting on Chame in my room, feeling cold, sitting under same planket on my bed, hot water botles on feet, and also dark because electricity went of. So we were sitting there with headlamps, feeling cold that we were paying really mutch to get cold and dark room :D

Shower

Toilet

Showers here are mostly cold rooms where you can get hot water if you imagine really hard or then you mix water with buckets and all the time is cold :D

On mornings pipes are so frozen that you dont get water, you just have to wait sun to open them :)

And when you wash laundry on cold water and all the time is cold it takes 3 days to "dry" your laundry, was just frozen underwear and socks on back of my backpack :)

But that was totally worth of it!!!! Seeing sunset in mountains after day hiking, with feeling no hurry anywhere. Being with people who still live naturall life middle of mountains. Seeing kids playing nose running in frosty ground in morning when starting to hiking again....those moments were like a dream, i thought soon im waking and going to work doing work that has no meaning.... but that was real!!!!! 

Even those moments when i was going middle of night freezing to toilet that was outside....but stopping to see millions of stars middle of the night, alone, and everything so quiet!!!! All those moments have made permanent mark to my hearth....

But to be continued...

 from Chame we continued to lower Pisang (3200 m) where i had to buy fleece pants because i was afraid i dont survive with my clothes :) 

From there we came here  Manang (3540 m) where we suppose to be this evening and tomorrow day, just get your body used to hights. 

So our trip is heading to highest point whitch is 5416 m high but i tell that later then, this is just raport that im alive and freezing to death :D