Back from the big TREK, alive and well and in one piece (a piece with very very sore legs, but whole nonetheless). In 4 days we: climbed up and down about 8,000 feet; lived free from motorized vehicles of any kind; got soaked to the skin by monsoon rains; saw countless wildflowers of yellow, purple, white, blue; hiked along green-on-green-on-green ravines with rivers fed by waterfalls cascading down the rocks and streams that often ran right along our path; and stood beneath towering peaks covered in snow, wreathed in fog, lit by the sun's setting and rising. All in all, it's the hardest that I can remember pushing my body in years, and some of the most striking scenery I've ever seen.
Tomorrow it's back to Kathmandu for a night, then on to Hong Kong for a day, and then home, which feels awfully far away at the moment!
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