Prvi dan / First day

1. dan: Katmandu-Dumre-Bhote Odar Z avtobusom smo se odpeljali iz Katmanduja v kraj Dumre, kjer se običajno začne treking okoli gorovja Annapurne. Med potjo, ki je trajala več ur, je avtobus ustavil ob cesti v gostilni, kjer smo se prvič od mnogokrat najedli jedi dal bat, to je riž z omako iz leče in nekaj zelenjave. V kraju Dumre smo najeli tovornjak, ki nas je peljal po prašni cesti tri ure daleč v Bhote Odar in s tem smo si prihranili prvi dan hoje. Ker smo bili večja skupina, sprva nismo bili pozorni in niti nismo zares opazili, da se je med nas nekako vtihotapil še en pohodnik, ki je potoval sam, se lepo peljal z nami v tovornjaku, ko pa je bilo na koncu treba plačati šoferju, ga ni bilo nikjer na spregled. Prvič smo prespali v popotniškem hotelu, kjer smo seveda večerjali dal bat. Kolegica je imela s seboj polkilsko čokolado Gorenjka, ki pa se je v vročem dnevu povsem zmehčala, zato jo je zvečer pustila na okenski polici, da bi se ohladila in zravnala. Zjutraj pa, o groza, čokolade ni bilo več! Le kdo jo je vzel? Za zajtrk smo dobili čapatije namazane z marmelado, Mojca jih je naročila toliko, kolikor nas je bilo v skupini, a je na koncu eden zmanjkal. Malo smo se postrani gledali med seboj, ali ni morda kdo pojedel dveh zajtrkov, na začetku poti se nismo še niti dobro poznali med seboj. Šele potem v toku dopoldneva se nam je vsa zgodba sestavila, ko smo ob poti zagledali odvržen zmečkan ovitek od tiste izginule čokolade Gorenjka. In se takoj spomnili našega sumljivega sopotnika od prejšnjega dne, zdaj smo bili prepričani, da je on vzel čokolado in najverjetneje tudi zajtrk. Še sreča, da je hodil hitreje od nas (je že vedel zakaj) in ga potem nismo več srečali, sicer bi ga sigurno prebutali. Ponoči si je ena članica naše skupine poškodovala nogo, ko je šla na stranišče. Na srečo ni bilo nič hudega in je naslednji dan lahko hodila.

Day 1: Kathmandu-Dumre-Bhote Odar We rode a bus from Kathmandu to the town of Dumre, the usual starting point for the trek around Annapurna. The bus ride took many hours so we stopped for lunch at a roadside restaurant where we tasted dal bhat, a dish made of rice, dal (lentils) and a little vegetables, for the first time. In Dumre we hired a truck to drive us along a dusty road for three hours to Bhote Odar which saved us a day’s worth of hiking. We were a large group and so we didn’t really notice that an additional trekker mingled in our group, rode with us on the truck and was immediately gone at our destination before the driver had to be paid. We spent the night in a typical trekking hotel where our supper was none other than dal bhat. One of the girls in our group brought a half kilo of Gorenjka chocolate that was all soft from the day’s heat so she left it on the windowsill during the night to cool. But the next morning the chocolate was gone! We all wondered who took it? Our breakfast was chapatis with marmalade that Mojca ordered for us, one for each member of our group. But the last person went hungry because there seemed to be one too few. We were all suspicious of each other, in fact, we didn’t know each other that well at the beginning of our trip and we were all wondering that someone must have secretly eaten two breakfasts. It wasn’t until later that morning that we discovered what probably happened, after we found the wrapper from the missing Gorenjka chocolate lying by the road. We remembered the mysterious trekker from the previous night and were quite sure that he took the chocolate and most likely grabbed one of our breakfasts as well. Lucky for him that he hiked much faster than us (he must have been in a hurry to get away from us) and we never met him again, for we surely would have given him the time of day. During our first night a member of our group hurt her foot when she went to the toilet. It wasn’t serious and she was able to walk the next day.