MOHARE DANDA – POON HILL – GHOREPANI TREK
23rd October 2023
Around 7 AM I started my journey “MERO YATRA” along with my brother and Nephew from my village “Banskharka”.
We live in lower part of Banskharka Village(BIRMARE) . So we have to climb all the way up to Upper Baskharka (GAMA). From Gama we walked by villages called DANDA KATERI, BANBADHE, NAGI respectively and walked by hill called “HAMPAL DANDA”. While reaching hampal danda, it was so windy and cold because of the wind and already sunsets. (Time was around 6PM). Luckily there was moon shine in the sky and we had one torch light which helped us to continue our journey. There was water coming from hill on the way and we refilled our water bottle but forgot 1 bottle to refill which we regretted it so much afterwards I will tell you why. Please continue to read 🙂
Around 8 PM. We reached “MORE DANDA” which was our that day’s destination. Hotel Door was closed and we thought they were already slept. We knocked the door and one man (relative of our village person) I really forgot his name. ( Sorry to say that – I should have remembered his name. ) He open the door and he was surprised because we arrived there so late. He asked how many we were, we said 3. And he said follow me, we followed him and he showed us hotel room and gave us a key.
There was some tourists already there ready to eat their dinner. Even though we arrived so late, there was enough food for us. Food was okay but omg here comes the point that I was talking before. Food was really salty, but we have to eat, we didn’t have a choice because we were hungry. I just put some water in plate, stirred it and ate the food.
After dinner, we went to the room. There was 2 bed in our room. My nephew in one bed and me and my brother in another bed. Bed was little bit small and hard but it was okay for the night. We slept around 10 PM.
Suddenly I wake up, I looked at the time and it was 1:23 AM. My nose was blocked and hard to breathe. I layed back for half hour and tried to sleep. After I didn’t notice at what time I slept. And I wake up again, this time I was so thirsty and time was just 4 AM. I looked for water bottle, and damn there was no water in it. There was like 2/3 drops. While I was looking for water bottle, my brother also wake up and he was also very thirsty. We shared 2/3 drops of water. We forgot to refill the water bottles. It was so cold outside and there was no water to refill. Everyone was sleeping. It was good lesson for us, and that moment we’ll never forget in our journey. We just slept again.
We wake up around 7 AM. It was already sunshine outside. We missed the sunrise view from MOHARE DANDA. But it was amazing panorama view of mountains (Nilgiri, ManaPathi, Annapurna, Machhapuchhere ) etc. We took some photos and videos and continue to our next destination “POON HILL”. (TIME : 11 AM). We reached at “POON HILL” from “MOHARE DANDA” about 2 and half hour. We were so unlucky, view from POON HILL was not clear. It was covered by clouds. We waited about an hour but it didn’t clear up. So we walked down towards GHOREPANI. We took some Photos and walked down to ULLERI. Time was around 6 PM. and getting dark, So we stayed at ULLERI.
After lunch, we headed towards NAYAPUL. We arrived at Nayapul around 4PM. From NAYAPUL, we took taxi to Pokhara.
Overall it was good trek even though we missed sunrise view and clear view from “POON HILL”.
TOTAL TREK DAYS : 3 DAYS
TOTAL DISTANCE TRAVELLED : 51.59 K.M.