Tag: Annapurna Circuit

Short answer: $1455 USD. That's for two of us with a guide and a porter for a 17 day Annapurna Circuit trek, inclusive of all food, lodging, transportation, entrance & trekking fees, starting and ending in Pokhara, with an exchange rate of 70 Nepali Rupees per 1 US Dollar in...

In planning your Annapurna Circuit trek, you'll have to decide whether to hire a guide and/or porter? We opted for both a guide and a porter. Part of our foreign aid policy is to go to under-developed countries and pay locals for their services. I try to avoid going...

Ranipauwa is the last of the traveling trekking circus -- the group of fellow familiar travelers you've encountered on the trail and in the lodges leading up to the pass. On the AC before the pass you have no other options but to walk, but after the pass jeeps...

Most folks stay in Manang for their acclimatization day - it's a bigger town with more trekkers, shops, and a number of German bakeries (yes, German bakeries). We stayed in Bragha, preferring the proximity of the Milarepa's Cave trail and the old village. But Manang does have its charms....

Heading out of Chame we encountered shopkeepers opening their shops. In addition to sweeping and setting out goods, most lit sprigs of juniper in small burners. We encountered this natural incense of smoldering juniper sprigs all along the Buddhist part of the AC.

We awoke to the bells of a donkey train getting an early start.

In the blue light that marks the start of dawn I'm drinking tea with Devendra, our guide, and Ari, our porter, at the empty dirt lot that is the Pokhara bus station.

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