Poon Hill Trek in my words…

DAY ONE: Going to Tadapani

Our trek was about 3 hours. We started with Nepalese flat (aka ups and downs) and then we started the climb. It was exhausting and N-O-T not fun! We took a short break and had tea. I did not like my ginger tea, it was too spicy. Then we got to a small town/village called Tadapani where we stayed for the night. Me and mom slept together on the first time, it was FREEZING. My nose was covered in ice when I woke up. Along the trail you stay in tea houses which are basically hotels with inch wide walls. So we could hear Dad and Grant in the room next to us chatting away all night. Each tea house has a common room with a wood stove and that’s also where you eat. 

DAY TWO: Going to Durali

We started by going up for about three hours, it was tough but we saw monkeys on the way. They had white faces and brown bodies. They were super cool. It was like the jungle. Then we were there. When we first arrived there were a big group of Austrailians, we met two out of the 25 of them. They were eating French fries, I got them later and they were super good.

DAY THREE: Going to Ghorepani

We left about 7:30 and had all of our layers on including hats, gloves, mittens, fleeces under our puffy coats and many pants on. We were on our decent, as we were going down we found a place to sit down for a second. We were exactly 3165 meters above sea level. Cool, right? We got there for lunch because of our early start. We sat by the fire and had lunch. We also taught our guide Sagar 31 (Scat) and he was super good.

DAY FOUR: Poon Hill to Ulleri

I drowsy but awake we had gotten up to Poon Hill to see the sun rise. I did not want to go at first but then I thought: this is a once in a life time thing, so damn it I had to go. It was a breath taking sunrise out of the two I have seen in my life. Ulleri: We saw more monkeys but this time they were jumping it was like Grant’s flips off the boat in Turkey but there was no water under them. We made it to our last tea house for another chilly night.

DAY FIVE: Going to Pokhara

Today was not a long day of hiking but we did get to cross two suspension bridges, they were sick. We bounced, ran, looked over the sides and walked across the bridges. Then we got picked up by a jeep to return us home to Sandalwood and our favorite Pokhara activity- Disneyland Skate Park!!