The Annapurna Circuit

Boatman, Pokhara

Morning frost
Returning for breakfast after watching the sunrise
Annapurna 1, 8093 m (I think)

Annapurna 1
"The Fishtail"
A cold dip in the river after the hot pool
The hot pool at Tatopani
Fertilising the fields
Chicken transport
Water transport... ;)
Donkey transport
Nepali tractor
Crossing the river plains out of the high mountains

Thorung La pass in the middle
The holy city of Muktinath on the right
Preperation of Yak for the winter
Porters heading down from the pass
On to of the pass at 8 am
Climbing to the pass
Sunrise
Some time after leaving camp at 5 am
This is actually one of the wealthiest villages in Nepal!
The frozen lake in Manang
The frozen lake with the Annapurna range behind
Manang
A very "kanny" prayer wheel
Mountain village at 3600 m
More mountain transport
Upper Pisang with Pisang behind
Tibetan monastery with Annapurnas behind

Swing bridge with manual road constrction to the right
A friend, Chame
Collecting fuel, Tal
Read carefully!
Rice production

Skipping the first day sitting in the back of a jeep we set off with our guide (required as of a month ago for all treks in Nepal) to complete the Annapurna circuit in 16 days. The plan being to drop Johan (a friend from Sweden) off halfway so that he can return to work.
The jeep road took us to the end of the road, this left us walking with only porters and donkey trains for the remainder of the trip! Quite an unusual feeling to only see silent forms of transport for such a long time! This isolation, however did not make for a lack of people or tea houses supplying tired trekkers with good food and shelter, the locals also growing whatever will grow all the way up to 4000 m.
Finally, a peace treaty has been signed in Nepal that means that future trekkers will not have to pay the "tourist tax" that we were obliged to pay, and more importantly will put a stop to the bitter political dispute that has majorly affected life for all of Nepal and killed their biggest export, tourism, for the past 7 years.

The rest can be seen in the photos!

(after two power cuts and one blown up computer I have finally gotten this one online! Hopefully I won't have so many problems next time...)