My predicition at the end of my last blog post was spot on. Our trek, unsurprisingly, did not go quite as planned. Not that we had planned it atall, but our loose aim to at least summit Poon Hill for the famous panorama of the Annapurna mountain range was not quite met. Luckily, the failure of our trek was not a devastating blow; it merely opened the door to an entirely different journey. First, though, the trek! We took three long and painful buses in one day to reach the start of our trek. One from Kathmandu to Pokhara, one from Pokhara to a stretch of dusty road that led us to our third bus, the worst of the three, that juddered us to Beni. The roads and buses out here are utterly awful, even on
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