What’s possible to do in Nepal in two weeks time
…so first of all, I’ve been to school, met everybody. Madam Tsulstim : the headteacher of Manasarovar school academy, with the whole team of teachers, included my future nepali teacher… I’ll start on sunday.while waiting, i met also four volunteers from Italy who had prepared a play with children on the thema of a forest reconquering its land from the naughty men. a mononoke-like story
+ a quickly played romeo and juliet. The children had been fantastic. no photos yet, as you notice the blog don’t want too many photo at the time, but the month is nearly finished anyway.
Next day, it Pokhara and Phewa lake. the one my neighbour in the bus described it as dangerous to swim but with lovely sunsets and a lovely temple amidst.
along this lake it’s all done for tourists. the streets are cleaner than in Katmandu, especially these days as it is Dashain celebrations days. No time to think about rubbish ! in Pokh you’ve got nice and noisy restaurants, music shops, second hand book shops, 300 nrs the book. jewellery, pashmina and so on. But if we came here i t was for the Sanctuary, the Annapurna’s Sanctuary. We don’t plan to go to the Annap. base camp (ABC) but maybe to the Machhapuchare base camp (MBC).
To go there even if it climbs high from Phedi, villages are all around, up to 2000. the thing here is that we are on a 28deg lattitude, so the trees limit is 3000m another 1000m to walk on the snow. Below these altitudes that’s jungle-like and paddyfields mainly. green, brights greens, dark greens, etc, no many flowers.
the first day of the trek and 2000rs out of the pocket for the permit, we crossed four villages and stopped at the fifth, Landruk, lot of guest houses are waiting for the tourist willing to eat and sleep. But in Tolka it was a headteacher who had stopped the trekkers for some donations to his school. Before it used to be maoists who taxed the foreigners.
The second day it started raining early, and so from the trees as the water from the clouds, the leeches fell down on the trekkers. so many of them ! the latter day we met father christmas on hollidays, coming back from Laddhak. is walking with us now and collected one leech in his beard. Unlucky as many others, but in their shoes. We saw langurs too, local monkeys.
If home you’re like to go to the gym for some stepping action, you’ll love the Annapurna reserve. The gradient is high enough to make the local people, gundrungs mainly, to set steps as an easiest path, so everyday we sang stairway to heaven.
Unregular but nice steps which make the way easier for us but particularly for the porter and their big burden, the trekkers equipment, but also the material for the villages. And no many donkey around here, but many japanese, many corean, many french, dutch, german people plus czec, polish, swiss, spanish, italian, americans and so on. The whole world gather in october on the grey steps of the Annapurna 
Some are making suffer themselves, other make suffer their porter, by choosing any guy even if not fit for the mountain and with too heavy luggages. They’re supposed to carry 15Kg, but can go up to 30Kg as some people are not aware of social rights can be practised around the world, as some international companies for example !!
