The time had come. Jeffrey and I are finally on our way to our own theatre of dreams - Annapurna circuit cum Base camp trek.
Below are two of my fav photos that I had taken throughout the whole trip. All in all, I had taken 7 rolls of colours and 2 rolls of black and white. I truely enjoy the shooting experience with a manual SLR. The first pic is taken from the Annapurna Base camp in the early morning sunrise. Powerful rays, blocked by even more powerful mountains. The second pic in black and white is a pic of an elder sis and younger bro. To them, we are like the 10, 012nd people asking them to do the same pose. But for us. it ponders mi to think that the elder sis is trying to protect her younger brother from these foreign weirdos like Jeffrey and myself.
The concept of the trek was inspired by our JJC ODAC days. Even though NUS ODAC and rovers offers nepal trekking every year, it did not trick us into going for the package trip. We want to do it on our own, getting lost on our own, going into the unexpected on our own
Attached is my trekking soulmate, Jeffrey during Annapurna 2003. As mentioned in the previous mail, he would be making his way to Nepal from the happening India side this time. In addition, he would be attempting the wonderful Everest Base camp trek. Wish I could be with him, but my job do not permit mi to do so for NOW. I told myself like what others had always told mi - the mountain is always there. :)
Finally, this is mi trekking enroute to Annapurna Base camp. If I am not wrong, this is the coming down stage. My stats are as follows - A total of 21 days, covering a total track dist of 350km, 2 rain days, highest attempt of 5546m (Thorong La high pass), met countless friends from Holland, USA, India, Singapore, France, Korea, England, etc, met a very good friend called Colin Mark Holmes, had countless Dal Bhat, vegeterian for 3 weeks, broke my shoe, 2 sets of attire only, left my footprints there.
With all these writings,pic and memories accumulated, it still couldn't replicate the entire experience that I had during Annapurna 2003. I told myself - I will be back!
Aliying
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