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Poon Hill Trek

Posted by armrig | 19th November 2009

We decided to do a second 5 day trek from Pokhara. The trek is a circuit up and down wooded valleys with the highlight a dawn walk to Poon Hill for a mountain panorama of the Annapurnas and some of the world's highest mountains. It was quite different to the Langtang trek - not so high and not so close to the mountains but with stunning views.

A more civilised start this time - about an hour and a half by taxi. In Kathmandu, the only option seemed to be to buy a packaged trek including guide, porter, food, accommodation and transport. This time we just organised a guide/porter (Dharma) which was much better.

The first day was about 3 hours gentle uphill walking through an open valley with farming all around to Hille. The weather was cloudy so not much in the way of mountain views. Our lodge was full of a Swiss party who had just finished the 18 day Annapurna Circuit so there was much singing and dancing in Nepali and German.

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Continued | Flying South for Winter

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