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Day 15 - Dhumpa Tal - Marpha - Tukuche - Kalopani (2530m/8301ft) November 13, 2001
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The picturesque town of Marpha, 2670m/8760ft a favourite trekking stopover. Reputed to be the cleanest, most efficiently run town in Nepal.
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The Solmi Tashi Lha K'an gompa above the middle of the town | |||
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Watching ceremonies inside the gompa | |||
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We had lunch this day in Tukuche 2590m/8497ft | |||
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The Kali Gandaki river bed is quite wide and flat here with numerious criss-crossing tributaries | |||
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A washed out foot bridge forced us to wade across thigh deep, ice cold water
photo courtesy of Davie Eng |
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Crossing over to the east side of the Kali Gandaki valley | |||
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Kokenthanti, 2995m/9826ft At this point we were 45 minutes from our campsite at Kalopani .............................................. According to the Bryn Thomas Annapurna guidebook this area would be the deepest valley in the world as this valley is flanked by 2 of the 8 highest mountains in the world, Dhaulagiri and Annapuran I I would have thought that distinction would be at Tatopani, over 1900m lower further down the valley but I'm no geography expert |
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