Hi everyone! back with another blog post for you today about our very challenging hike up the Annapurna circuit. Again, we performed our boring routine and then embarked back to Sirikharka, where we slept before yesterday and had breakfast there. However, if you remember from my last post, there were many hikers sleeping in the kitchen(we slept in our own room) and they were all very noisy. Well, this morning we were treated with the sound of many hikers waking up at four in the morning in order to go to Tilicho lake. They all arrived late yesterday, so they had to go to the lake the next morning as a group. Because of this, they also had to sleep in the kitchen area because all the other rooms were taken😆. It was kind of funny to see them all get up so early and head to the lake and made me grateful that I wasn’t them😈. We woke up two hours later and after the usual routine, we left for Sirikharka in the cold, cold morning. The hike to the next place was all uphill, as it passed through the landslide territory that we went through yesterday (it wasn’t challenging this time around though and we had great conversations), and it was two hours long. It was only challenging at the beginning of the hike, but then it got better as the temperature got warmer and the trail gradually became downhill, which was awesome and comfortable. We got to Sirikharka and I had a fantastic potato dish. I have been having potatoes a lot lately because they are my favorite vegetable and they fill me up, which I need on this hike. After that delicious breakfast, we began our tiring and steep walk to the other base camp, Kharkha. This hike was hard on two different levels: There was extremely steep downhill and it was incredibly windy. Usually, I love going downhill and would do it at any chance I could, but the downhill here was so steep that I nearly fell off multiple times, hurt my knees, and killed my feet. It was extremely difficult to bear, but the scenery and snack break that followed were worth it. I ate a delicious apple with Oreos and then we hiked UPHILL until reaching the camp. When we finally got to the camp, guess what happened: They were out of rooms😱. We were discussing what to do when Ganesh found another camp fifteen minutes away and we went there instead. We got our own rooms and we had French fries 😙🍟!!! For dinner, I had spaghetti, which was very tasty and ultimately, our long day was over.
(Sorry! Some of these pictures cane out sideways)