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Trek To                                                 decided to walk with my father.
                                                                There was another suspension bridge and after

        Annapurna                                               crossing the bridge, I started to feel uncomforta-
                                                                ble. My dad hired a horse for me to sit on it. I was
                                                                so scared at first. It was evening when we reached
        Base Camp                                               our destination. Then my feet started to hurt. So,
                                                                my father said that I would be riding on a horse
                                                                tomorrow too.
                                                                       The next morning, it was so cold. We fresh-
                                                                ened up and we went for a walk. Our horse came
                                                                at 8 o’clock. There were three horses named Setu,
                                                                Commandu, and Pandey. I sat on Setu, my brother
                                                                Kabir sat on Commandu and my brother Kastuv
                                                                sat on Pandey. We found out that Pandey was a
                                                                Jungle horse. Then between Bamboo and Dhovan,
                                                                Commandu fell on the stairs but he was okay.
                                                                We reached Dhovan first and after about two
                                                                hours our parents came. We also went to the 108
                                                                waterfalls. We took pictures and walked again. Af-
                                                                ter another 30 minutes we reached Himalaya. We
               We planned to trek to Annapurna Base Camp        had bunk beds in our hotel room. We ate our din-
        on Friday, 28th October, 2022. First, we packed our     ner and talked to other trekkers. We met Korean,
        bags and picked up two of my brothers, Ashrit and       Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish groups and we also
        Prassana from Deep Jyoti Inn. My brother Kas-           clicked photos with them. Then, we went to sleep.
        tuv and I sat in my Thulo baba’s car. After a while     Next morning, we started to walk to Deurali. All
        we reached a restaurant called Hamlet and ate our       gathered there and drank tea. As we were walking,
        breakfast. Then, after a 6 hour drive, we finally       I started to feel hungry and was about to faint. My
        reached Pokhara. In Pokhara, we ate pizza and ice-      dad hired a potter dai and he carried me on the
        cream. Then our next stop was Naya Pool. It took us     way. Then after a couple of minutes, we reached
        2 hours to reach there.                                 M.B.C which means Machhapuchhre Base Camp.
               Our next stop was Ghandruk. It took us 2         Then, it was time to reach A.B.C.
        hours to reach Gangdruk. When we reached Ghan-                 On the way, I started to feel very uncom-
        druk it was already late at night. Then we went to eat   fortable. Then we tried to go to Hillichuli moun-
        pani puri and chocolate cake. It was so tasty. After    tain. But we came back. Then finally, we reached
        eating we went to our hotel restaurant and ordered      the Annapurna Base Camp. It was so cold and at
        pizza. There, we met a Spanish tourist named Fer-       night it became colder. I got more sick. So in the
        nando who had come from Madrid, Spain. Fernando         morning, my father gave me two options; one was
        loved Nepal and said that Nepal is beautiful. My        going from a helicopter and another was going
        sister thought that Fernando looked like an actor and   back with them. I chose the second option. Then
        also showed the picture of that actor to him. Fernan-   a potter carried me in a Doko. It took 10 hours
        do laughed and said goodbye to us. We ate pizza and     to reach Bamboo. We played cards like UNO,
        went to bed.                                            pokemon etc.
               In the morning we saw mountains like Mach-              Then the next day we reached Jhinu with
        hapuchre, Annapurna, Gangapurna etc. Then again         the horses. Then we went to a hot spring. Then the
        we got ready and we hired two potter dais and went      next morning we went to a place called Back to
        with them. After half an hour we reached our desti-     Nature. Then we played swing there. Then we went
        nation. Then we started our trekking.                   to see some hens, geese, buffaloes, goats etc. We
               First, we crossed the suspension bridge          also saw the beehive. At night we slept in a tent.
        (Jholunge  pool). Then came a big and steep hill. We    The next day we came back to Kathmandu. We
        all started walking. My brothers Kastuv and Kabir       reached Kathmandu after six hours. I had a mem-
        were quite ahead of us but my sister and I were tak-    orable experience.
        ing breaks. Then we finally reached Chomrong. We
        drank tea and went to a hotel called Pizza house. We    - Suvramshu Pokharel
        ate dal, bhat and tarkari. We played basketball and I
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