Our first full day of trekking started with us all in various states of illness and exhaustion (all except me strangely....). Laura and Sophie had 2 hours total sleep on account of some vomiting around midnight and Rebecca was just generally tired. Ollie wasn't feeling 100% either. After breakfast we set off we set off across a suspension bridge to begin our 5 day trek! That day's trail led us along the Langtang River and through beutiful forests. The weather was lovely all day and the walks over suspension bridges and past tea and guest houses wasn't too tiring. A riverside break around 11am saw us bump into some white-headed monkeys across the river. We had lunch around 1:30 at one of the many guest houses along the route, I had a rather tasty plate of vegetable fried rice.
The rest of the afternoon was a little harder than the morning's walk, getting caught in a rain storm for the last hour of the walk didn't help either. We were all very glad to reach our guest house for the night, perched on the edge of the valley, at 5pm. Ollie promptly got out his sleeping bag and fell asleep in the room for half an hour! We all met up in the stove heated dining room for dinner and Sophie and Laura had a sing-along with the guest house owner. Rebecca went to bed soon after arriving owing to stomach cramps so she missed dinner. Dinner was very social, we had a chat with some other trekkers and I enjoyed some Dhal Bhat for dinner. We ordered breakfast for 7am and we were all in bed for 8:30 after a good first day on the trail :).
Laura and Sophie cross a suspension bridge across the Langtang River
Monkey!
A typical scene from day 1
The group takes a mid-afternoon break :)
Enjoying my lunch :)
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