Nov 27 Fri - After a good breakfast of hot noodle soup, we got mischievous and started doing warming up in the garden with some yoga warrior poses. Someone started taking photos and we invited Ang Gelu to do yoga with us. We are a bit photo-crazy and we started taking photos of Jangbu and Ang Gelu, Finzu with Temba, Furba with Pasang, then all of them together and with us. The nuisance continued for half an hour before we all settled down to start our day’s trekking. Actually we were trying to lighten ourselves up because we know we have a tough day ahead of us to Chomrong (2020M) (5hours).
Chommrong is said to be the best place where you can see the Annapurna mountains very close and other traditional Nepalese houses in the villages. This place is the doorway to the ABC Trek – well, there was a slight change of plan and we will stay at Jhinu Danda (1730M) where there is a hot spring and Jhinu being lower it should be not as cold for us than Chomrong.
This was an amazing day of trekking! We trekked from Ghandruk down the valley to cross the river Modi Khola several times over different kinds of hanging bridges, then up the hill for lunch at Kumrong Khola’s Kumrong Guesthouse.
At 1pm the sun disappeared behind the clouds and it turned chilly. We felt quite tired and while we sat waiting for our lunch we started to feel sleepy. As there were 2 other bigger groups of trekkers before us so the kitchen is having a rush hour. Our lunch is finally ready after almost 45 mins. It’s Dhal Bhat as usual with everyone asking for extras as we were getting quite hungry after the long wait. Nice curry potatoes with papad, green cabbage, pickles and tasty dhal soup. After lunch it is 2 hours uphill to the peak to bypass the landslide area, then a long relentless downhill trek into Jhinu Danda. We trekked in the shape of a M or W on this day.
Total hours were like 6 hours (minus lunch time) and reached Jhinu Danda’s Namaste Hotel by 5.30pm. It was very tiring and our legs felt like they do not belong to us anymore. But we are getting more accustomed by now and just pushed on. For a moment, I felt that we were just like the mules and our daily routine is to trek trek trek… minus the bells going tong tong tong…
By the time we reached the guesthouse, none of us felt like going for the hot spring. It was too late anyway. After dinner, Jangbu came to join in our card game. We taught him our game and he taught us 2 Nepali games called something like Jiputi and another one called “Kiti”. Lee Chin also taught Jangbu some Chinese phrases. We laughed a lot the whole night and are enjoying every moment of our trekking trip in the Annapurna.
see next day...Jhinu Danda to Landruk to Tolka
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