Morning
as usual; breakfast at 0730 and departure within an hour later. Today’s plan
was to ascend app 900m to Ghorepani and a lot of the time was spent walking
through forest so the sun wasn’t as bad as the previous days. But as the day
had been estimated to 4 hours there was a certain steepness involved. My
surprise was therefore big when realizing that the walk had only taken us 3
hours when arriving.
Lunch
was had and room keys were handed out and with nothing else really planned our
guide grabbed a couple of bows and arrows and took us to a shooting range
minutes away. Having done archery quite a few years in the past it would be fun
returning for a short moment to the discipline. The material was of quite a
different level than the stuff I once used so getting used to it was half the
trouble. The second half was not remembering the techniques. People did seem to
appreciate the tips I had to handle the equipment so some good did seem to come
from it.
Coming
back to the teahouse we were given lessons in how to make mo-mos. While they
did end up tasting as they should it was a perfect example of a situation to apply
the saying “Don’t judge on the looks”.
Our
assistant guide had his birthday today so we (the group) got together to get
him a cake. He (all locals, really) don’t really celebrate birthday so when he
saw the cake with the candle he was visibly very happy and touched. He said he
had never been given such attention on his birthday so overall it was a great
success.
The views from today were often spiced with the presence of Dhaulagiri.
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