Himalaya
Day 46: Kathmandu to Lekhani
Lekhani village, with our campsite in left foreground and a magnificent view north to Annapurna and the Dhaulagiri ridge.

Eventually, winding down across slippery, vertiginous rocks, between terraced fields of sorghum and millet, we come to our village, with attractive stone houses, some thatched, some tiled, spread along the hill, between spurs of rock running down to a valley far below.On the northern horizon a spectacular panorama of Annapurna, Machhapuchhre with its distinctive twin summits and the 26,750-foot (8150 m) Dhaulagiri massif looks sublime in the late afternoon sunlight.
The only disadvantage of this precipitous location is that there are only two unoccupied flat places in Lekhani. One is a sports ground, where the recruiting will take place tomorrow, and the other is an old cow patch, corrugated with dried mud. This is where we pitch our tents.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Himalaya
- Chapter: Day 46: Kathmandu to Lekhani
- Country/sea: Nepal
- Place: Lekhani
- Book page no: 104
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