Day 2

Actually have WiFi here at the guesthouse so will publish what I've written so far since we've been trekking!

Ulleri - Ghorepani

After a pretty good nights sleep in the softest beds so far (no more bruises on my hips woop) we had breakfast at 7.30. Big bowl of porridge and two eggs set us up for another day of walking, and another day of too many steps.

We had a slightly shorter day in front of us, the trek to Ghorepani was estimated to around 4 hours. We left Ulleri just after 8 and arrived at Ghorepani at noon, more or less exactly 4 hours.

The walk today was more in a forest, beautiful rhododendron trees and many small streams and waterfalls. The view from the top of Ghorepani is amazing as well, you can see a lot more of the mountains now. We're currently on 2800 metres, so already pretty high.

Again we didn't have to pay for the room if we had dinner and breakfast here. We were a bit worried that we didn't bring enough money up, as we calculated on pretty much exactly 2000 rupees a day like we had been told, but so far we haven't spent nearly that much.
Feels good to have some spare money for when we get higher and we will probably need more snacks in between meals as the walk gets harder. As it gets colder we might want more tea too.

Prices here are ridiculous though, for a dal bhat (standard Nepalese meal) we paid around 80-100 rupees back in Pokhara, up here it has been between 350-500 with higher prices as we get higher. But I guess its only fair enough as a lot of the ingredients have to be transported up here by Sherpas and horses.

Tomorrow will be an early start to walk up to poon hill for sunrise, then back here to have breakfast and pick up our backpacks to head to Tadapani. But for now we're sitting down in the dining room in front of the fire heat - it's getting a lot colder as we get higher although we still trekked all day in t-shirts.