After a 7 hour bus journey from Kathmandu Val, Blair, Sam and myself arrived back at the Silver Oaks Hotel in Pokhara and managed to haggle a good price for the rooms.

We spent the next two days planning for our trek of the Annapurna base camp, shopping and arranging permits and visas. To do the trek we had to obtain a TIMS permit which is free and also a permit for the region which was about 20 ponds.

Across the Phewa lake in Pokhara is a stupa on the hill so the day before our trek began we decided to have a little warm up by hiring a rowing boat again and rowing across the river to climb up to the stupa. From there we got our first clear view off some of the amazing Annapurna range with the fishtail clearly visable which made us all even more excited for the trek.