🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 Distance Ascent Descent Time Day 1 - Surke to Phakding 9.3KM 604M 288M 4 hr Day 2 - Phakding to Namche Bazar 16.32 KM 1211M 366M 5hr 58m Day 3 - Namche Bazar 15.01KM 792M 783M 7hr 18m Day 4 - Namche Bazar to Thame 9.19 KM 645M 299M 3hr 42 Day 5 - Thame Monastery and Thame to Lungden 15.21KM 969M 372M 6h 46m Day 6 Lungden Day Hike 10.82KM 402M 390M 4h Day 7 - Lungden to Gokyo Via Renjo La Pass 12.95KM 1104M 683M 10hr 44m…
🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 It was dream for many years to embark on this epic trek, probably the most comprehensive trek of Khumbhu Region. Day 1: Kolkata to Kathmandu: My day started with an early morning flight from Kolkata to Kathmandu. There is just one Nepali airline , Budha Air which operate a direct flight on every alternate day. It was just under 2 hrs and I was well in time to check-in my hotel and then found a nice restrurant in Thame area for a traditional Nepali Lunch. It was interesting to…
🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 Day 1 Valle de Cocora to Finca La Argentina Length: 9.9km Alt. start: 2,400m Alt. end: 3,400m Departure: 8am Lunch: El Bosque I met my guide at Salento around 8:00 am to be ready to leave by 8:30 am and hop on a Willys Jeep for the 12km drive to Valle de Cocora where our Trek starts. Valle de Cocora is a natural cloud forest and home of the Colombian national tree Palma de Cera. This giant wax palm tree, the tallest in the world growing up to 65 meters, was near extinction…
🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 Day 1 I was picked up from my hotel and was driven to the company office to pay up the dues and after that it was long and bumpy ride to starting point of El Mamey town . This drive took about 3.5 hours. We then had our lunch at El Mamey. From El Mamey hiking starts , it was about 4 - 5 hour hiking to Adam Camp . The evening was spent in chit-chatting with group . There was a good dinner in the evening and…
🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge takes on the peaks of Pen-y-Ghent (694 metres), Whernside (736 metres) and Ingleborough (723 metres), usually in this order, and in under 12 hours. These hills form part of the Pennine range, and encircle the head of the valley of the River Ribble, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. I drove to YHA Hawes on the previous day and stayed for 2 nights . Very early morning on the next day I left for 3 peak challenge . I drove to the starting point…
🇬🇹 🇬🇹 🇬🇹 I arrived a day before. Today I changed the hotel and explored this lovely city of Antigua. From the next day its time to start gruelling back to bacl volcano climbs. Day 2 Hike Pacaya Volcano and Cerro Grande (2561m) In the morning I got straight to the task at hand: volcano trekking! I was driven to the trailhead of Pacaya National Park, laced up my hiking boots and hit the trail for what is an ideal acclimatisation trek. The route weaves first through steep dense forests and green…
🇹🇿 🇹🇿 🇹🇿 Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro was a dream for a long time. I started researching seriously from 2022 but finally could make it happen in 2024 January. I booked the solo trip through a local company based in Moshi called Kiliafricatours. I choosed Northern Circuit Route, because it gives best chance of aclamatization , relatively quite and had beautiful scenic view. Day 1 MOSHI - LONDOROSI GATE – MTI MKUBWA CAMP I flew from Heathrow to Moshi by Turkish Air. There was stopover at Istanbul and then I reached Kilimanjaro International…
🇹🇿 🇹🇿 🇹🇿 DAY 6: BUFFALO CAMP – THIRD CAVE CAMP This day begins with a climb up the Buffalo ridge and down into Pofu Camp where lunch is usually served. The route then continues east around the northern slopes to the Rongai Third Cave at 3,800 meters. The trek is shorter than the day before and by now I was well acclimatized to the altitude. You arrived at the Third Cave just around mid-afternoon. This is rarely travelled route allowed one to enjoy vast mountains wilderness in peace. Distance: 8km/5miles, Hiking…
🇧🇦 🇧🇦 🇧🇦 The bus picked us up from the Dubrovnik airport . There was some confusion about one person who arrived lake but nevertheless we set out for Tjentiste which would be our base for Mount Maglic. I met my guide and team en route to the 18th century city of Trebinje. This is the southernmost city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is situated on the banks of Trebišnjica river in the region of East Herzegovina. The restrurant seems pretty posh with great view . After lunch we visited the Tvrdos…
🇭🇷 🇭🇷 🇭🇷 Day 1 This is the beging of a 2 week trip coinciding with UK bank holiday. I arrived Dubrovnik in afternoon. My apartment was between Lapad and Old Town. Uber is available in Dubrovnik so I took an uber to my accomodation. Later in the afternoon visited a local beach named Belevue. Day 2 Dubrovnik gets pretty hot even in the beginning of June. So next mornings I wanted to go for a walk along the city wall as first thing. For a walk, tickets are pretty expensive close…