The TREK: Day 9

Hey hey hey! I’m back with another blog post for you today our what I consider to be the easiest climb up the Annapurna circuit yet. When I say easy, I mean that our actually was easy, like there were only a few things that were difficult. I woke up and did the daily routine as usual and had a delicious omelette for breakfast. The omelette was actually very good and after a refreshing and full breakfast, we started our daily climb. We hiked for a total of 3 hours before reaching the base camp. The climb there was surprisingly easy despite being cold for the first hour or so. We had a lot of fun conversations while we walked and we joked more about all the people in Tilicho base camp had to walk all that distance in the dark, cold morning. It was very fun to socialize with one another and I feel like we got to know each other more. We finally arrived at base camp #101,010,101,010,102,846,666,573,828,938,563,284,901(I lost count a while ago and I can’t remember, so I resorted to random numbers), where I had a cinnamon roll 4,900 meters above sea level! I didn’t finish our, but it was so, so good and I could really use a dessert like that at any time😙🍪🍫🍩. The high camp, where we would sleep later tonight, was directly above us… meaning that we would have to climb up steeply with a lot of other backpackers until reaching the camp. This was the most exhausting part of the day, but it was only 40 minutes long and we stopped occasionally, so it was pretty easy. When we finally got up there, I was so relieved despite going only a short distance. I felt relieved because this was our final uphill before the pass tomorrow and that we got a really long break😌🙅(dab emoji). After getting settled in, we went to lunch and played UNO with many other people. One of these other people was a very sweet traveler named Hui(pronounced “We”), who was from Vietnam. We actually first met him on our first climb up and we have been running into him ever since. Since we are also going to Vietnam, Ofer asked him about apartments there and many other things that probably will help us out while we are there. Another traveler we met was a woman named Leia and her dad, whose name I do not know(sorry if you’re reading this😐). They are both from Switzerland and Leia even made crafts with Ella they looked very cool. Our UNO games were very intense. The first 3 games were won by Leia, but the rest of them were gratefully win by non other than the spectacular and amazing Asher😆👏👏👏👼!!! The rest of the spots were taken by mostly Hui and Ella, with Ganesh and Troy kind of kicking the bucket, but they did occasionally get close… Anyways, my nice meal of vegetable fried rice came and it was super good as always. We relaxed for a few hours later until dinner arrived. I had spaghetti and French fries, which are always super good to eat. We had very interesting conversations together and made funny hour jokes. We had an awesome time talking until dinner was over and we had to stay up to 10:30 to go to sleep. It had something to do with the attitude, but I am so excited for tomorrow, where I’ll finally have meat and when the trek is over. It has been very fun for me and it was fun to meet me people and find similarities between ourselves.