Hiking Tiger’s Nest Day 1

Gearing up for our big hike to Tiger’s Nest. Today we climbed steady for much of the day to reach Bumdrak camp at 3860m. We began at an elevation of 2950m about a half hour drive from our hotel.

The coniferous forest is absolutely beautiful. To conserve battery, I didn’t take too many pictures. One of the girls wasn’t feeling to well so those of us at the back took breaks as she needed which helped make the trek less strenuous. We also made friends with a few local dogs, one of which I named Paulo and it stuck even after we realized she was a girl.

The camp itself is glamping, there were full on beds on the tents though facilities are basic and no showers. Some rodents got in so quite a few of us returned after dinner to find some items chewed up. For me that was my pants because I forgot about a chocolate wrapper in the pocket. Tomorrow one of the other girls would notice part of my mesh pocket on my bag had also been gnawed through.

Early night and it rained but I was snug in bed with a hot water bottle aka mountain baby as the locals called it.Read more