Reflection

The reflection pool in front of the Hindu temple in Muktinath. The overall scenery was nice, as it was autumn and the garden reminded me of a Japanese garden.

This is also the last picture in my Nepal series, even though there are still lots more pictures where this came from, it's time to move on.

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A prayer scarf outside the muktinath temple walls at roughly 3800m above sea level. There are two small temples inside the walls, one tibetan buddhist and another one hindu. Religions here seem to play along with each other very well.

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The water is wide

People walk across the Kali Gandaki riverbed during the dry seasons, because it's somewhat shorter than taking the roads. However winds can get quite strong, so make sure you're prepared. Pebbles in some areas will definitely kill your foot, making it feel like a foot reflexology session from hell.

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The long and winding road

Part of the reason why my knees felt like they weren't mine anymore by the end of the day. Imagine, these stairs took less than 5 mins to climb down, and we had hours of these ahead of us that day :s

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Just beat it

Three ladies beating the husk off millets. This was taken on the way from Ghorepani to Tatopani while waiting for lunch to be served. Curiously enough, whatever your order, it will definitely take more than half an hour to arrive, regardless of the crowd.

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She'll be coming round the corner when she comes

Kids watching us as we trekked past them. In nepal, I find that looking back while trekking tends to yield lots of interesting pictures.

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running out of titles

Sunrise , sunrise, there's some booger in your eyes

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Wider shade of pale

One of the very few good pictures I took on Poon Hill which kinda reminds me of midwest USA. Seriously, it's not worth waking up at 4am for a one hour climb up for a view was more or less the same as the one you can get below... plus it was freezing my ass off =p

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Taken, believe it or not, from within the lodge's dining hall, where everyone congregated because it there was a fireplace, and the apple pie was yum. The view on Poon Hill (which we had to hike another 500m uphill to reach) was not much better, except that you can see all the other mountain ranges.

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Finally, rest.

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On the top of the hill, before heading to Ghorepani, which was about 500m (my guess) downhill.

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When it gets higher up, things suddenly start to look like a Chinese ink painting.

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What looks like a waterfall in the background is actually grass. There were some monkeys too, but unfortunately I didn't manage to get any good shots of those.

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Kit and Woon resting at Tadapani after a long day's hike through the forest with slippery stairs.

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Tadapani

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Gateway to the heavens

Day 2, road to Tadapani

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Hot air

This is, what I assume, the top of a cumulus cloud, taken from our first day guest house on the Annapurna trek in Ghandruk. Since layers of clouds often have very subtle difference in colour from the surrounding clouds, curves have been tweaked in photoshop to bring out the most of this picture.

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Nepali tongue trick

"Almost there.... I can almost touch my nose with my tongue... "

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Deep thought

Whatever that's on her mind right now, it probably has nothing to do with how close she is from falling off the platform.

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Heading home

After a quick rest, this woman is setting up her headpiece(?) to her basket before she continues with her journey home carrying firewood.

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