Sunrise @ Dhampus

Fish Tail Mountain @ 6,993m

Third sunrise viewing in Nepal

Got up at 6am for this!

Sunrise behind the mountains

Sunrise @ Dhampus

Sunrise @ Dhampus

Sunrise @ Dhaulagiri View Hotel

Annapurna mountain ranges

Me @ Dhaulagiri View Hotel

Villages on the Annapurna Circuit treks

Switzerland? Nepal?

Breakfast with a view

Morning exercise

Porter, Albert, Mathew, Trekking guide, Tracy, Kitty, Cora, Me & Eyad

Fish Tail Mountain @ 6,993m

Cora, Tracy, Kitty & Me

Jump!

Albert, Mathew & Eyad

Porters carrying all our belongings

Terraces are used in farming to cultivate sloped land

You can see in this picture why it is called the Fish Tail

School @ Dhampus

Trekking

Easy downhill for the first hour

Village along our trek

So scenic

Garage for cow

Me & FF

A bit like the Great Wall of China

Local entertainment

Temple

Agriculture employs 76% of the workforce

Farmer

Looks heavy

Graduated terrace steps are commonly used to farm on mountainous terrain

Wheat field

Me & Tracy

Terraced fields decrease erosion and surface runoff

re effective for growing crops requiring much water, such as rice.

Terraced paddy fields are used widely in rice farming in east, south, and southeast Asia

Nepali mom & baby

Nepali mom & baby

Nepali mom & baby

Nepali toddler

Baby swing basket

Hen

Nepali girl

Sheeps

Home for cow

Nepali convenience store

Shampooing on the street?

Here comes mom

After an hour of hardcore uphill we are on flat ground again

A beatiful day

Farming

Interesting shaped hill

Nepali woman

Laundry time

Mathew surrounded by Nepali kids

Houses along the trek

Fishing

A bath and some water is perfect under the hot sun

Woman and kid doing the work again

Nepali kids

What are you looking at?!?

So much love

Singing and dancing

More terraced aka step fields

Crop rotation is practiced

Hut

Pretty hen

Pokhara village & Phewa Lake

After 5 hours of trekking almost back to Sarangkot

Paragliding

Cows helping out in the field

Almost there!

At last we are back

Time for late lunch

Culture dance

Sizzler chicken again