POSTSCRIPT
Without doubt responding to the challenge of one of Geoff's friends made a huge impression on our next 25 years spent exploring the world in a style developed by backpackers who always move by local scheduled transport and never book ahead but follow their noses as they develop ideas about a variety of differing areas of the world. The first six years were spent developing the technique in constantly growing confidence. Each new adventure takes no more than a couple of days of acclimatisation - after which you are completely relaxed and cannot see why so many other friends are too worried or too particular to try.
Lessons for next time
1) Change 10$ a day for trekking at the airport and get a receipt
2) Bargain for a room, clean doubles available in Kathmandu for 80/120r/night
3) Trek by Tea -House not camping, more flexible and cheaper
4) Going to Annapurna, quicker to get trekking permit in Pokhara
5) Carry 2 pairs mountain trousers plus pair of padded ones for warmth
6) Take sleeping bags for warmth and sheet sleeping bags for cleanliness
7) Use travellers cheques not Access card 5% or Eurocheques. There are many festivals during which banks will be closed. Quaint very dated comments as I write in 2016!!
8) Negotiate for rooms in local currency not USD
9) Get trekking permit early
10) Send some time in Dhulikhel Lodge, Dhulikhel, see Kathmandu Reservation Office in Hotel Himalayan Horizon
11) Vitamin C tablets helped make water potable after boiling and sterilising
Of lasting importance was the recommendation to use local currency not USD or £ or you will inevitably pay through the nose as an ignorant tourist.
Without doubt responding to the challenge of one of Geoff's friends made a huge impression on our next 25 years spent exploring the world in a style developed by backpackers who always move by local scheduled transport and never book ahead but follow their noses as they develop ideas about a variety of differing areas of the world. The first six years were spent developing the technique in constantly growing confidence. Each new adventure takes no more than a couple of days of acclimatisation - after which you are completely relaxed and cannot see why so many other friends are too worried or too particular to try.
Lessons for next time
1) Change 10$ a day for trekking at the airport and get a receipt
2) Bargain for a room, clean doubles available in Kathmandu for 80/120r/night
3) Trek by Tea -House not camping, more flexible and cheaper
4) Going to Annapurna, quicker to get trekking permit in Pokhara
5) Carry 2 pairs mountain trousers plus pair of padded ones for warmth
6) Take sleeping bags for warmth and sheet sleeping bags for cleanliness
7) Use travellers cheques not Access card 5% or Eurocheques. There are many festivals during which banks will be closed. Quaint very dated comments as I write in 2016!!
8) Negotiate for rooms in local currency not USD
9) Get trekking permit early
10) Send some time in Dhulikhel Lodge, Dhulikhel, see Kathmandu Reservation Office in Hotel Himalayan Horizon
11) Vitamin C tablets helped make water potable after boiling and sterilising
Of lasting importance was the recommendation to use local currency not USD or £ or you will inevitably pay through the nose as an ignorant tourist.
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