Nepal trekking Raiders bokhara POONHILL link

Time: November 3, 2007 — 6/total: 4 days

Difficulty: 5 tier level 2, no dangerous road sections without the need for professional mountaineers tools and mountaineering clothing.

Daily walking time in 6 hours or so, the first three days on foot is 12 hours.

Elevation start and end points: NAYA PUL village 1060 m

Highest altitude: POONHILL peak 3200 m

Line: NAYAPUL---ULLERI----GHORIPANI (POONHILL)----GHANDRUK----NAYAPUL note, if you reverse the difficulty walking, because from significantly increased to GHANDRUK GHORIPANI is one of the few very steep mountain path segment, physical exertion.

Go mountaineering card: go to Anna PMG mountain hiking needs to bokhara ACAP (Annaparna Conservation Area Project) Office for mountaineering, processing time is Sunday to Friday 9 am-5 pm, Saturday to rest.

Costs 2000 rupees/person. Mountain climbing permit after inspected three times. If no mountaineering card penalty 4000 rupees.

Tour guides and porters: it is recommended that you choose one knows English potters, porters can also work as a tour guide, save a lot of money.

Wizard and porters 9 USD/day (by the hotel or travel agency), 8 USD/day (his own), and finally to tour some of the tips. We find little potters MEK is a college student, holidays when porters to earn money.

Carry-on luggage: mountaineering mainly carry clothing, flashlight, toiletries, photographic equipment and food.

Many items can be set to one of the largest mountaineering packet back from porters.

Food: the mountains there are many hotels and restaurants, but the basic taste not Chinese appetite.

Dinner must be eaten in the hotel, the hotel room rate is very low and earn just the meal. Dinner to Nepal traditional food "scar" (DAAL BHAAT rice with curry potatoes and lentil soup), a two or three, absolute food every day. You can also choose miantang (NOODLE SOUP noodles), fried noodles or rice, but if you come across with sheep oil speculation, just a bit of trouble. The mountains are seldom eat delicious meat, and if so, can only be a water beef and chicken. Breakfast with MOMO (Tibet dumpling stuffed shredded sea foods) and continental breakfast. So be sure to bring something to eat up the Hill, such as meat, nuts, chocolate, hot pickled mustard tuber, etc.

Drinks: the most expensive on the Hill is the water.

But, okay, this drink also drink, mineral water prices in 1L 80-150 rupees/bottle. Another good way to supplement water is drinking tea (mainly black tea and lemon tea, 20 rupees/Cup), the heating and filtered water is more secure. POONHILL mountains is full of overwhelming rings-House, it was said jokingly as TEAHOUSE link.

Clothing: light and temperature difference between day and night, during the day can be a short-sleeved t-shirt, single-jacket; night should wear zhuarong shirt, rongku or sweater; to see the sunrise at POONHILL peak temperatures near the freezing point, a hat and gloves, but the peak has sold shops.

Mountain stone road a lot, be sure to wear a pair of thick winning.

Accommodation: multiple sets of wooden houses, from single rooms to have more room.

General press bed charge, 100-150 rupees/bed. Surprising is that the more high-altitude areas bathing conditions better, and the water was warm and rushed.

The first day

L – Nayapul (elevation 1060M) — Hile (elevation 1560M) — Ulleri (elevation 1960M)

As early as 7: 40 car hire from bokhara (1200 rupees) to drive an hour on foot starting point NAYAPUL.

As early as 8: 45 start from NAYAPUL, 45 minutes to walk into the registry, check the mountaineering card and record.

12: 30 lunch to HILE village.

All the way from NAYAPUL to HILE, villages-intensive rural scenery, all covered with oil, in front of the room after the kind of flowers, is one of the best photography section.

Afternoon 14: 00 to TIKHEDHUNGA.

Intermediate encountered Maoist toll stations, to say the dumps that gave 200 rupees.

16: 30 guests to ULLERI, live SUPER VIEW LODGE, hot bath wash very good.

From a total of TIKHEDHUNGA to ULLERI 3280-stone steps, is the most difficult climb.

The second day

Ulleri (elevation 1960M) — Nangethanti-Ghorepani (elevation 2874M)

As early as 7: 00, noon, 10: 00 arrival at Nangethanti.

This seems a visitor centre, backpackers coming in this chat over tea, sat to eat lunch (12: 30) before departure.

Afternoon arrival at 15: 00, live GHOREPANI SNOWLAND GUESTHOUSE.

The hotel's first floor restaurant has a big fireplace, stove, side hung up in the clothes and backpackers are symbolically in this yehua, Knight reunite. Ghorepani is Anna PMG mountain altitudes, the largest town and transport hub, shops and hotels, bustling.

The third day

Ghorepani (elevation 2874M) — Poonhill (altitude 3200M) — Deurali (elevation 3103M) – Tadapani (elevation 2721M) — Ghandruk (elevation 1940M)

4: 30 in the morning to get up, go to POONHILL to see the Sunrise, which is based around the line of maximum highlights, if it's fine to

To see the snow-capped mountains Sunrise 270 degrees of spectacular scenery. Uphill from Ghorepani is only one path, backpackers who each person wears a light headlamps, they circled the language after another, the Sunrise of the generals are rare. Unfortunately not, 270 degree snow didn't see, only in the rubble of the clouds in the corner joints see snow.

7: 30 back to the SNOWLAND hotel breakfast, a light fog, in the hotel restaurant to see dream Anna PMG nanfeng.

8: 45 departure, is a climbing road, across a wide stretch of the original forest of pine and Himalayan rhododendrons, azaleas in full bloom in the spring you can imagine the scene must be very spectacular.

10: 45 arrival at once began to Deurali, Spring Hill, bamboo, UPS and those of a mountain Canyon scenery, a natural scenery of the East China area.

15: 00, after reaching Tadapani jungle walk three hours at a stretch, 800 m, Ghandruk arrive before dark, hostel Annapurna Hotel.

This one-day hikes in the 12-hour, two-leg twitched has been so, to overturn would sleep in the hotel, after a sleep is 12 hours.

The fourth day

Ghandruk (elevation 1940M) – Nayapul (1060 m above sea level)

7: 00 wake up by small tour, said to be snow exposed.

Rush out the door to take a look at the big snow clouds apparition, from left to right are: Annapurna South (7219m), Hiunchuli (6441m) and the fishtail peak, Ghandruk was snow feet so the beauty of a small town!

8: 45 start all the way down the Hill, idyllic pastoral style villages more gradually, compared to the first day of the mountains, the village less commercial operation, the more the life breath, field threshing, spinning clothing, Royal oxen scenery can be seen everywhere.

Fast to NAYAPUL, many voluntary organization in Nepal children song and dance team in roadside dancing lianqian, we had one with.

16: 15 finally returned to the highway, take the NAYAPUL coach returns boccara.

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(See the fishtail peak in GHANDRUK)

(See POONHILL clouds of snow)