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This is as strenuous as it’s going to get. An ascent of 1390 metres in one day and all of it on a stone staircase of more than 3300 steps. But watching the early morning mist trail off on the rice terraces it doesn’t seem such a daunting prospect for some reason. There’s something about…
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Day one and it’s an early start. Six a.m. and we’re all packed and ready to go, standing in the garden, bleary eyed and dazed, waiting for Laxman and the cars that will take us to Naya Pul and the start of the trail. I am no good in the mornings so all I recall…
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Technically there is no need whatsoever to hire guide on the Jomsom Trek. The trail follows a mule path which is a well worn trade route to the temple at Muktinath. Getting lost is quite simply impossible. The Jomsom Trek is also affectionately known as “the apple pie trailâ€, a quaint tag which refers to…
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Twenty minutes into our arrival in Pokhara and we’ve already been approached by a guide and a porter. “Where are we going? Do we need a porter? A guide? Where are we staying? When do we plan to head out?” Questions, questions. The answer to all of them being a collective “We don’t know.” We…