About Ghandruk
Trekking grade: easy
Max altitude: 2000m
Best season: Sept to June, trekable all through the year
This is the most scenic and popular trek that can be done from Pokhara- Ghandruk. It is one of the famous rural homestay trip in Nepal. This trek is an easy and short trekking in Annapurna region. The trek takes you to a homely peaceful environment and give immense relief from your hustling city life. It is also very enjoyable and nice for children as families can trek & tour in the mountain region. Popular destination for cultural, and geographical diversity along with spectacular views of mountains and stone roofed houses. Ghandruk is a small village also known as ‘Stone Village’ or called as ‘Konda Village’ in the local language.Trekkers can have a heart touching view of various high mountains such as Annapurna South 7219m, HimChuli 6441m, Annapurna III 7555m, Gandarba Chuli 6248m, Machhapuchre 6993m, Annapurna IV 7525m, Annapurna II 7937m and more peaks.
Motive: Educational tour for BBA faculty, 2nd Batch of BMC
Tour co-ordinator : Bhaktapur Hospitality & Tourism Training Center
Date of Trip : 2017 Jan 09-12
Members: BBA students and teachers.
Personal Trip Dairy
This journey is marked as my second trip of 2073 and this time I escorted bachelors level students of BMC. My trip experience is shared here.
Day 1 2017 Jan 09
I woke early in the morning in order to reach RBB at Suryabinayak for gathering with the college students, from where we were going to begin our trip. I felt so happy that out of 60 students,5 students were well known to me. After gathering we headed towards our journey. I was in section A’s bus and before interacting with students I communicated with the teachers. Due to seat imbalance, one of the students wished to sit in the front seat, so I moved to last seat of the bus where I interacted with some of them and I soon found that everyone was entertaining and cooperative. We had our breakfast at Kalanki, where due to lack of enough space, most of the students had to wait for their turns. It took 1hour for the completion of breakfast. After that we moved on for Pokhara. On the way we had our lunch at Blue Heaven Restaurant. Everyone enjoyed their lunch and it took approx 1.30 min. I was wishing that after lunch, students would enjoy in the bus, that’s why I asked Amrit to begin dancing. He stood in the middle of the bus and started to dance. Ritu joined him along with Rojina and Jyoti. I was enjoying their dances and craziness along while I interacted with rest of the students. Dancing for hours made everyone exhausted and so all of us remained silent until we reached Davis Falls. My memories from school trip to Pokhara returned and comparisons with this trip triggered in my head. Then, we moved to Gupteshor and soon forward for the hotel in dam side of Pokhara and due to my interesting trek experiences, the BBA students asked to share my trip and I began sharing my previous trips and experiences in trekking until we reached hotel. Everyone was wishing for cycling in Pokhara but because there was lack of time, I told them to do cycling at 3rd day of trip. Students had some free time, so in order to kill the time, they wished to visit the lakeside, which was 3.5km far from hotel. I joined them in order to meet my school friends. When we reached there, some of the students were enjoying themselves. Crossing lake side, I was walking along with Rojina, Anu, Renu, Nabina, Sanu and Sushmita. I told them to carry on the walk and I became hypered because I was unable to meet my friends. I messaged them that I had reached my hotel. On the way, I met Tulsi sir and reported him that two of the students were missing. After reporting, I moved to hotel and joined Risav sir for the arrangements of dinner. At 9 pm, dinner was over and I got a call from my friend that they were on the way. Hurriedly, I ran to meet them after informing Risav sir. They were angry with me because they had been walking for hours and were even unable to find me.
On the way, I heard my code name and there they were waiting for me.When I met them they poured their anger on me but after describing them about the situation, they calmed down.After talking for about 10 mintues, I went out of there and reached hotel on time. The teachers were discussing for tomorrow’s plan and after drawing conclusion, every one of us headed to our respective room for rest.Day 2 2017 Jan 10.
This is my second day of the trip. Early in the morning, everyone woke up in order to reach Sarangkot for viewing the sun rise. We moved on from our hotel at an early morning but on the way, one of the bus got stuck due to lacking of diesel. Our bus provided them the diesel in order to carry on the journey. I was phoned by Risav sir to lead the students. After the buses stopped, we started walking but I got confused while counting the students because a lot of students were there from other colleges and schools too. I hurriedly moved to the viewpoint of Sarangkot in order to count the students for paying entrance fee. I found that everyone was not at the viewpoint, so I asked one of them where were the rest of the friends and I got answered that they were at the bottom due to tiredness. Only 30 students were at view point and so I cleared the entrance fee. Then after we moved to Bindebasini temple, where BMC BBA took their first group photo and soon after; it was printed for souvenir.
Spending 20 minutes, we moved for hotel where our breakfast was waiting for us. After breakfast, everyone was informed that we would be heading for boating after which we would be moving for Ghandruk. Everyone was excited for boating but I was wishing for paragliding because while boating, everyone was watching in the sky where other people were enjoying paragliding. We spent 30minutes in Taal Barahi; then after we moved for hotel in order to have our lunch. We left the hotel at 1 pm and while we were riding, I along with Risav sir, were seated in the last seat of the bus. He said to me,” today is my birthday” but I took it as a joke but then, he was serious and in the moment, he got a call from home wishing him happy birthday. As a celebration, we had hajmola candy party till we reached Ghandruk. I think we had more than 10 candies during the ride. He was informing me about the trek route as well as I was sharing my ABC trek experiences. On the way, one of our bus which was driven by Kumar dai got stuck on the road, and because of that our driver dai braked the bus. Suddenly, everyone was pushed at the front at once. Everyone got shocked saying what was the matter. However, to maintain their enjoyment I told them that it was a break time. Ahahahah... listening to my command, Amrit hurriedly got out of the bus to feel the nature and be relaxed. Everyone went out to get refreshed; but in reality, due to short height of the bus, it was stuck. But after few minutes, our travelling began and ended at Kimche from where our trek to Ghandruk resumed.We walked for 45 minutes to reach the Sherpa hotel at Ghandruk. Before us, Risav was already there and he was busy to manage the rooms for us. He told me to help the students to show their allocated rooms. After allocation of rooms, everyone was wishing for conducting campfire but the weather was in raining mood. At 9 pm, we had our dinner and at 10pm we continued our campfire.
Students were enjoying the camp fire; while I was with the teachers for discussing about the day after plans. After the completion of discussion, I moved to hang out with students. But before that I went to RRAN's hotel, in order to inform them about the campfire. Then there, I found that the remaining girls Pramila, Rasmila, Saraswoti and Razee who were missing, but after searching, I found them. They were enjoying themselves at Shakti hotel with their other remaining pals. In the campfire premises, I found two groups were enjoying in their own way: section A was singing, playing guitar and madal, whereas section B was dancing in the hall room. Firstly, I entered the hall in order to end the dancing and after that, I walked towards the campfire zone where everyone gathered to enjoy the campfire. After completion of campfire, everyone went to their respective hotels for sleep. Along with students and teachers,moved to respective camp for rest.Day 3 2017 Jan 11.
Ghandruk
Like before, I woke up early but due to darkness, I was staying in my bed. But again, due to noise of students, along with sir, we hurriedly got ready to march towards the view point. We walked for few minutes and at the view point, Laudri sir, the Sociology teacher of BMC, shared about the report which was needed to be prepared by the students. His briefing was so interesting to me because he was describing about Ghandruk and its natural diversity. While he was briefing, Sapna mam, and I were snapping our pics. After the briefing was done, we returned to the hotel. On the way, some of the students wished to dress up in traditional Gurung uniforms , which could have been one of best part of the trip for them.
While moving, I informed students to have breakfast in their respective hotels and after that, gather at hotel Sherpa for final departure. At 9 am, we marched for Kimche by walking. Everyone was enjoying their walk whereas I was busy counting the students. When we arrived at Kimche, our bus was waiting for us. We got into the bus and then I found that everyone was having fun and after travelling for hours, we reached Birethanti where we had our lunch. Queue for lunch was very long. So, I used the free time reading map of ABC where section B boys joined me. They asked about the ABC trek and I shared my experience with them. They were so motivated to trek ABC while hearing my experience. We went on for lunch where I found that some of the students were having additional curry and rice which made me think that the lunch was good. After having lunch, all of us were interested to visit the waterfall, which was at a short distant from our lunch place. We walked for about 10 minutes and on the way Mausomi mam said, "Age doesn't matter, just live the moments", which greatly touched my heart. And finally when we reached the waterfall, it was so mesmerizing that we could not prevent ourselves from taking few shots. In the waterfall, everyone was chilling. In order to chill myself, I sat on the stone, Bimala mam suddenly warned me not to move; I was stunned for a moment and then I realized that she quickly took her mobile phone to snap my pictures.
She said she liked my natural pose. Hahahahhaa ....with surprise, I told her that I was chilling by myself and she wished me to always stay happy like this. After that, it was my turn to take some of her pictures, like she took mine. Everyone was feeling so refreshed from this waterfall. Risav sir clicked some pictures of me with Rojina, Nabina and Anu, while we were posing in our own funny ways. Spending 45 minutes altogether in Birethanti, we moved for Pokhara and at 2 pm, we reached the Bat cave (Chamero Gufa), where interested students went inside the cave. This moment was one of the funny moments for me because; in order to escape from the cave through a small hole, I was helping Risav sir and whenever students were struggling to get out of the cave or managed to escape from the hole, the outsiders or some of the other students, would just hoot and cheer them, which just made me laugh. After completion, we continued our visiting to Shanti/ Peace Stupa but before that, Risav sir and I, discussed not to go there because we won’t have enough time to be visiting the place. As our prediction, only sec B got the chance to visit the stupa while section A could not because the visiting time at stupa was over. Section A was not happy and their faces expressed great disappointments. I tried to console them but they were just in an angry mood. We reached the hotel and everyone wished for cycling. So, Rishav sir allowed them to enjoy on their own. I was at hotel, reading newspaper where Sabina joined me. We conversed for few minutes and after a while, Nabina and Renu joined me. Renu told me she was very angry with some one else but she was also laughing. I was just confused whether she was really in anger mood or she was joking. We conversed for half an hour when I got to know that dinner was ready. I told them to have the dinner and go back to their respective room for rest after finishing dinner. At 10 pm, we took our dinner and talked about our today’s experience and also discussed tomorrow’s plan. We discussed for about 2 hours and at 12 am, we moved out to our respective room for rest.I found that today’s trip was more interesting than yesterday’s because everyone was enjoying in group, which I was wishing from the first day of the trip.
Day 4 2017 Dec 12.
begnas taal
This was our last day. I woke up earlier and I found that no one has waken. So, I moved to my room for getting my bag packed. We had our breakfast at 7 am and after completion, we straight headed to Begnas Taal where we spent nearly 30 minutes. We took some group pics here but before that, I snapped a few pics with Pramila, and Rasmila and captioned them as ‘Gainju brosis’
.While moving back to bus, I interacted with Renu who told me that she was not feeling well. So, in order to brainwash her, jokingly I shared my experience of nausea but then, she got angry and started chasing me to hit me. I ran toward Tulsi sir but she suddenly stopped and ran back to opposite direction. After that, we travelled until we reached Bandipur. On the way, I bought sweets for everyone. Sabina was asking me what was inside the boxes and I replied that they were edible copies. She was just eager to look inside the boxes. We reached Bandipur at 11am where we marched to the core area. I was walking with Renu,Anu ,Nabina, Rojina and Laudri sir. we just round the tower and moved back from the same place where I took their pictures and Renu was entertaining us by her loud laughter and punches.
I found out that rest of the students were coming back from the view point of Bandipur. At bus stop, I shared my sweets to everyone and felt very happy to know that everyone was happy on my success. Sabina was just shocked while getting sweets from the box because before that, I told her that inside it, there were edible copies. With a short visit at Bandipur, we rode back for Abu Khaireni. Jyoti informed me that she had not got any sweets along with I came to know that 8 more students had not got the sweets and in the bus but luckily, I managed to give sweets to all of them.
We arrived at Abu Khaireni at 1 pm, where we were going to have our lunch but due to busy works and lack of space, we had to wait for our turn. Meanwhile, Risav sir told me to hang out with sec A in the river bank across the road. We went to the river and I told the students to enjoy by themselves.
Signature Poses from Ghandruk to Marshyangdi
I was observing everyone as well as thinking that everyone is different from each other in one or other way. I was comparing; being an organizer and a student, the freedom to do thing had vast differences. Students were enjoying each moment and even I was encouraging them to enjoy because today was our last day of the trip. After 2o minutes, I got a call from Risav sir to bring sec A for lunch. Everyone was enjoying the meal but before that, I had told them that meal over Shanti hotel was good. At last, I along with Risav sir and Mausami mam had our final lunch. After completion of lunch, we began our last travel and in the bus, Nishan was sharing chocolates to everyone because it was his birthday. We exchanged our chocolates and sweets and I wished for his bright future and he too wished on my success. I interacted with Nishan for hours having corns. Both of us shared our school and plus 2 experiences as well as this trip. Travelling for hours, crossing Galchi, I found the road was empty and silent and I guessed there might have been a problem in the highway. As predicted, when we reached Simle, we knew that there was a long jam and so, we got stuck in jam for almost 1 hour. Everyone was sleeping but I along with Rasmila and Pramila, were just chittering and chattering. Then I intentionally made a louder noise in order to grab attention of front seated members to make them joined us. We began to play antakshri composing music and songs by ourselves. After few minutes, Ritu joined us and she added loudness and madness more than before.
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| Enjoying in Ghin-Tang-Gisi Tune. |
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| Surprised snap |
I was surprised because, even I did not know when this picture was taken. I asked about the pictures but she was enjoying songs; so I left out from there and moved at front in order to help sir because we were nearly going to reach Bhaktapur. Students began to get out from the bus whenever their home destination arrived. At Sallaghari, I changed the bus and along with me, were Renu, Rasmila, Pramila, Sabina, Suman, Saraswoti, Razee and Alisha. We got out from the bus at Mahakalisthan in order to drop Razee. Then after, Saraswoti dropped at Incaho and we got dispersed. I reached home at 9 pm and soon got into bed for rest.
Overall, I found this trip familiar. Firstly, I did not think it would be enjoyable because students were sitting in a group of two and were not much interactive, even in second day. But lastly, everything turned remarkable. I found that every student with whom I interacted, was familiar and friendly towards me and they were obedient to their co-ordinator Tulsi sir. I wish for their progressive results.
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