Annapurna Base Camp Trek - Day 10 of 12
Jhinu 1760m – Ghandruk 1940m
about 4 hours [lunch at Sakura Guest House, Ghandruk 1940m]
Jhinu… down… up… flat… up to Ghandruk [Sakura Guest House]
Ghandruk is a beautiful village... majority are Gurung people... we visited the museum which housed a collection of local crafts, tools and kitchen ware... they maintained age-old cultural tradition here... see the traditional houses...
Jhinu 1760m – Ghandruk 1940m
about 4 hours [lunch at Sakura Guest House, Ghandruk 1940m]
Jhinu… down… up… flat… up to Ghandruk [Sakura Guest House]
Ghandruk is a beautiful village... majority are Gurung people... we visited the museum which housed a collection of local crafts, tools and kitchen ware... they maintained age-old cultural tradition here... see the traditional houses...
0650 the mountain behind me is where we are heading today
0651 my kopi (like our instant 3-in-1) and st's black tea
0700 my chocolate pancake... spicy lei... obviously never wash the pan after cooking spicy food :(
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0748 crossing this river after a tough descent from...
0748 ... from this steep 'landslide' path
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0811 i have been 'smiling to myself' (暗爽暗笑) ever since we reached the Annapurna Base Camp... even now :)
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0834 where is 'fish tail'?
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0858 um... what happened here... wau... difficult to tell the story lei... i try my best hor...
... st almost fallen down the cliff here... the path is very narrow with 'soil-wall' on our right and cliff with bushes at our bottom left... yuba was at the front, followed by me, then st and amir at the back... the soil loosened when st's left foot stepped on the edge of the ground... she lost balance and fell onto the bushes on the cliff, amir managed to plunge forward and grab her right ankle when she 'flew out'... while i turned back on hearing amir's shout, amir was squatting with st's right ankle in his hand, almost lost balance, he slipped a bit ... i tried to catch st's hand... luckily her 'waist strength' good enough... she managed to lift up her upper body and get hold of my right hand with her right hand... then the other hand of ours 'joined' [she caught hold of the branches with her left hand when she fell, she was relieved to release that as she felt secured when her right hand grabbed tightly to my right hand]... in fear of falling down together, i quickly squatted down upon grabbing her hands... soon yuba came forward and we pulled her up... these happened in not more than 5 seconds...
so blessed...
... no injuries (perhaps just mild invisible mental trauma over this frightening experience for the 4 of us), no cuts... just some chlorophyll stains on the left sleeve of st's long-sleeve t-shirt...
... she fell 'on the cliff with bushes' NOT 'down the cliff with rocks'...
... we were physically so closed to each other along this stretch of the trail, right after one another
0912 st gave us another 'bomb' here... lol... yuba and i were looking at the grains here... st's backpack fell from the table... 'POP'... gave us a terrible fright lor
0913 walau... will i have nightmare tonight... i need 'geng hong sua' 惊风散 hahaha :)
after st's fall, yuba trekked very closely behind st for the rest of the trek, especially when descending... st said for the first time she experienced being closely guarded by someone... she felt so secured knowing that yuba will catch her almost immediately if...
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along the crops plantation.. an oncoming korean guy greeted me 'ann-yong-ha-sae-yo'... so i also look like a korean too? lol...
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1014 we had a break here...
i showed them the flora collections that gonna be my sweet memories...
... too bad... this sweet flower from my little babu was too 'complicated' to be flattened... nevertheless it will always be on my mind... :)
1017 haha guess yuba badly needed a private space... to de-stress from the mental trauma he got from st's fall...
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1018 ... not only yuba... we four badly needed a private space... to...
we had precious moment here... just settling down...
1019 'fish tail' peeping at us from behind the mountain [at the right side of this pic] while we're settling down... :)
1036 hydraulic generator... what's inside?
1037 ... corn grinder
1039 cows ploughing
1042 cows ploughing
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1128 sakura guest house
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1426 brewing millet wine
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1443 prayer wheels
1444 flat stone roof
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1447 1-day old
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peekaboo from far
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1450 the peekaboo nani (girl)
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1525 solar panel... solar energy commonly used
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1545 back to sakura guest house...
... as usual... shower... laundry... rest/read/talk/think/...
[so COLD the shower... (solar energy commonly used in the mountain, so you'll still have HOT shower before 4pm... after that it usually takes quite a while to heat up the tank of water via gas fuel)... i had COLD shower here... followed by st, also COLD!]
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1832 sakura pizza shared by the 4 of us, each 2 pieces
1846 i had ghandruk coffee... thought to try the local coffee... only get to know when served... that millet wine added... the taste?... more or less like the amaretto liqueur mixed with coffee powder that we used to soak the ladyfingers when baking tiramisu
the uncle owner of sakura guest house kept looking & smiling at me lei... [i reckon i know why later... read on :)]
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