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From Kathmandu to Arughat Bazar a travelogue about trekking round Manaslu
We arrived the 19th November which is already pretty late in the year. So we hurried up and just stayed one day in Kathmandu. As we were 4 tourists and 6 Nepali we hired a private minibus ato Dhading bazar, where ther should have a bus going to Arughat bazar. At 7 am Bachan arrived with the portes, who were all friends of him.
Staying directly at Basantapur square we had a littl morning tea right there before we started.
from left to right: Ghopal, Bachan, Suresh, Dill and Adin. on top of the minibus is Raj
Shortly after the road reaches trishuli river a bifurkation leads to the nord. Till now it is still a normal road an we reached the little town of Dhading bazar. No one could tell us, when the bus would start to Arughat so we just hired a complet truck which was directly loadesd from the roof of our minibus.
In Dhading Bazar was a clear presence of soldiers but later we did not see them anymore.
Driving on the track from Dhading to Arughat Bazar The next 5 hours we were shaken on a bumpy track and it was often difficult to get hold on something of the truck.
but the scenery was awesome
I sit there the last 3 hours, but it was more like an rodeo on a furious bull.
The first Daal Bhat. A small restaurant served our first and delicious daal bhat. My friend Stups looks still a bit sceptical.
Manfred loved it.
We drove down to the valley of the Buddhi Gandaki.
We had to cross an interesting bridge
Raj with his spotless clean and white shirt did not hesitate to help the driver fixing the truck
Arughat Bazar Finally we arrived in Arughat bazar, a little town on the bank of Buddhi Gandaki.
We stayed in the only lodge one the east sid of buddhi Gandaki. her was the last point to buy goods so we bought everythink necessary like 15 litres of kerosine an more than 150 packets noodles. We did not knew that we could have bought later al these things also in Namrung and Lho and Samagaun
The lodge Didi made a excellent daal but soon we were al tied and went to bed.
Photos: the pictures of the Manaslu pages are from me and my friends. You can see the respective photographer in the filename of the photo: HH = Hans Henninger, HPS = Hans-Peter Stupp, MJ = Manfred Jeckel und AdR = Andrées de Ruiter For the search engines, Trekking in Nepal, A travelogue of the Manaslu trek, Round Manaslu, Pictures of Manaslu trekking, Photos of Manaslu trek , Trekking in Nepal - round Manaslu .
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Bachan and the porters
The best place was definitively on the cabin roof, but one had to be very cautious not to be thrown down.
In the middle of the trip, we were overtake by the regular bus which was much faster than our truck.
Not only our bones were shaken hard, but also our truck had suffered and a few leaf springs were loose.
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