The Annapurna Range!

We started to feel the high altitude but the landscape and the trail itself should become more spectacular every day. We went along 'Heaven‘s door', the Great Wall of Pisang, a smooth rock slope with fresh snow on it which is so massive that we immediately felt like tiny ants, continued through beautiful pine forest and reached Upper Pisang at noon, where it happened:

The Annapurna II showed its peak (7937m!) and we got goose bumps! A large part of the Annapurna Himal became visible, shining in the sun, white clouds moving fast and a stunning valley below. A place to marvel! And a place to enjoy the rest of the day, soaking in the beauty, writing these lines, eating garlic soup and Dal Bhat, and again: marvel.Read more