Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Trekking

I think we'll do this with minimal commentary today. Pictures of mountains tend to be pretty self explanatory. Also, I'm rather famished and planning on another excellent steak at K-Too Steakhouse with Peter in a few minutes. I'm back from what was an abbreviated trek due to an excessive amount of snow thus leading to avalanches that kill people. I told my guide I wasn't scared of a little snow but he prevailed and we stayed relatively low. However, we did see some snow and some pretty mountains. This is Peter the Dane and I the morning we left for the trek on the balconey of our hotel in Pohkara. You can see some mountains behind us and unseen is a lake that is rather nice as well. Us looking rather chipper on the 1st day I think. Day 2 is the one that starts with 3,500 steep stone steps for the first 1/3rd of the day and doesn't get much easier from there.One of many waterfalls
Sunrise at Poon Hill Mountains and of course us on Poon Hill
Another from the morning at Poon Hill
A mountain
A particularly sad and dirty child that I couldn't understand too well but sat by me as I waited to Peter who managed to get lost during our descent back to Pohkara.
And of course the neighborhood "chicken donkey"
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