Back from the mountains

Arrived in Pokhara after 17 days trekking around the Annapurna mountain range. Awesome trip, we had a guide and a porter to carry all of our stuff so it was much easier. The porter was great but his personal hygiene wasn't, normally i wouldn't care about this but now my bag smells like a Nepalese porters armpit. I've scrubbed it pretty hard and now it's airing out on the balcony at our hotel and i'm hoping for the best.

The trek was through small villages and we started in the low rice fields and climbed up to cross the mountains at Thorung La pass. This is at 5416m and is the highest trekking pass in the world. We had a few freezing days and nights as we got higher in altitude because there is pretty much no heating up there so it was just wear as many clothes as possible and drink warm tea.

There has been a major festival going on in Nepal for the last few days and for some reason this means they sacrifice lots of animals. On the last few days of the trek we saw quite a few chickens being killed and eaten (i ate a chicken eyeball and a chicken foot) and i also saw a small girl walking down the street with a water buffalo leg, i assume the rest of the buffalo went elsewhere. Obviously Mei loved it.

We leave Nepal tomorrow by bus and somehow need to cross the border back into India and on to Varanasi. There is a cow walking down the street outside the window, interesting.