16 Kande

A 16-day Trek in the Annapurna region of Nepal .. covering Mohare-Danda, Khopra-Danda, Muldhai, Machhapuchhare-BC (MBC) and Annapurna-BC (ABC)

Day-16 Trek Pothana to Kande (via Australian Camp)

View looking down into cloudy Valley .... as we descend from Australian Camp to the road at Kande

Day-16 (20th Dec) Pothana to Kande via Austalian-Camp

We left Pothana after breakfast at 8:30AM. We could see bad weather and clouds on Mardi Himal. So it was good I dropped that part of the trek.

GE Waypoints Image > from Chomrung to Kande via Landruk, Pothana

Breakfast in the Garden of Fishtail GH at Pothana .. see Clouds over Mardi Himal

From Pothana the direct way down is to go to Dhampus .. but since I had read about Australian Camp as a nice place, I wanted to see that. So we took a bit of a diversion uphill towards Australian Camp.

10 Mins out of Pothana ... the junction down to Dhampus straight Australian Camp

We were at Australian Camp by 9:15AM and after a bit of look around went down steeply from there the road side at Kande. We reached Kande by 10:10AM. So today was an easy 1.5 Hrs walk.

After coffee at a roadside tea shop we caught a Bus to Pokhara Bus-stand reaching at 12:30PM.

From Bus stand took a taxi to Fewa Hotel where Suman had booked a room for me in advance. After a nice hot shower I called Suman again to ask him to book a Bus ticket for both of us to Kathmandu for tomorrow. Thus ended this awesome tre.

Click here to see all Pics of this Trek in Day-wise Albums

Day-Wise Trek Diaries in sub-pages below:

Last look ... Hotel Fishtail... I had a Room up that purple stairs

Australian Camp had several nice looking lodges

Australian Camp ... passing some Tent Camp ona viewing ridge meadow

The the place we joined Kande on Road ... after descending from Australian Camp

Trek Itinerary :

Date ------> Day-# From Place (via) To Place (Walking Hours)

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05-Dec-2016 Day-01 Nayapul - Puranogaon - Lespar (8Hrs)

06-Dec-2016 Day-02 Lespar - Nangi (6Hrs)

07-Dec-2016 Day-03 Nangi - Mohare Danda (6Hrs)

08-Dec-2016 Day-04 Mohare - Phulbari - Phalate - Swanta (6Hrs)

09-Dec-2016 Day-05 Swanta - Chistibang - Khopra Danda (7Hrs)

10-Dec-2016 Day-06 Khopra -via UpperTrail - Bayeli (5Hrs)

11-Dec-2016 Day-07 Bayeli - Dobato - Muldhai - Isharu - Tadapani (7Hrs)

12-Dec-2016 Day-08 Tadapani - Chiule - Chomrung (5Hrs)

13-Dec-2016 Day-09 Chomrung - Sinuwa - Bamboo - Dovan (6Hrs)

14-Dec-2016 Day-10 Dovan - Himalaya - Deorali (3Hrs)

15-Dec-2016 Day-11 Deorali - MBC - ABC (4.5Hrs)

16-Dec-2016 Day-12 ABC - MBC - Deorali - Dovan (4.5Hrs)

17-Dec-2016 Day-13 Dovan - Sinuwa - Chomrung (6Hrs)

18-Dec-2016 Day-14 Chomrung - JhinuDanda - NewBridge - Landruk (5Hrs)

19-Dec-2016 Day-15 Landruk - Tolga - Pitam Deorali - Pothana (4Hrs)

20-Dec-2016 Day-16 Pothana - Australian Camp - Kande (2Hrs)

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Total Trek Hours = 84 Hrs and Distance (guesstimate) = 210KMs