The
Annapurna Circuit in Nepal
A
few photos from the Annapurna Circuit. This is the most
famous hiking trek in the world.
The
Annapurna Circuit encircles the biggeset mountains in
the world
in Nepal. Trails run through mysterious and forbidding
places.
It's the most established tea house trek, where you
can
hike along during the day. And then stay in Nepali tea
houses
at night. The tea houses are small lodges. They range
from the
touristy lodge type operations which 20 rooms, or so,
to family
homes where people make a few extra rupees.
You walk along beginning at low elevation and make your
way up into the Himalaya, eventually crossing Thorung
La,
a pass at 17,700 feet elevation. That's high enough
for
people to die of altitude sickness, if they are careless.
The trek winds through different ecosystems and mountain
cultures in the Himalayas. I carried 42GB of memory
cards
and took more than 6000 photos on this trek. It was
a
little short of what I needed. But, here are a few,
in a
series of eight.
Annapurna
Circuit I
Annapurna
Circuit II
Annapurna
Circuit III
Annapurna
Circuit IV
Annapurna
Circuit V
Annapurna
Circuit VI
Annapurna
Circuit VII
Annapurna
Circuit VIII
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