• fann tour #2

    June 3, 2024 in Tajikistan ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    woke up to a stunning view and the not so stunning discovery that some animal had eaten half our rations by ripping the food bag off the tree where we hung it so no animals would get it. not wanting to feel starving hunger for the next couple of days, i decided to descend the mountain again to try and organize some food at the resort. guess who bumped into me half an hour into my walk. turns out the austrians had decided to stay at the resort for the night. i told them where they'd find our camp and kept going down.

    fortunately, there was a super nice girl at the reception who gave me a bunch of bread, cheese, vegetables and sweets for a really good price. also, she told me that it was pretty much impossible that it had been a bear that ate my food, and that i should just keep it in my tent. i hiked back up to meet the rest and we got going for that day's hike.

    because it wasn't all that far, we first checked out another lake a bit further uphill, where a bunch of cows were chilling. then, we went back down and started walking towards the mountain pass we had to cross next. we came across some really cool tent houses where a couple of shepherds lived with their families.

    it rained a bit halfway through and the pass was pretty hard, but it was worth the view across the wide valley that opened up as we looked down the other side. after a quick nap, we hiked down there and set up camp by another cool lake. managed to get a campfire going and had a super chill evening.
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