13k up and down in 8 days

Part 1
On the very first day of the trek (day after I arrived to Nepal) I was accompanied by my very own personal sherpa. We flew in half an hour with a model size airplane to Pokhara. Buses from Kathmandu will take you in 7 hours minimum. They say in lonely planet the views are marvellous. I guess going at a speed 29 km/h allows you to take in a lot of it.People that I talked to however were more curious about the price of the flight and not that fond of the road as lonely planet. One guy covered the distance in 12h bcs of several accidents on the road.
From the airport me and my sherpa were picked up by a taxi driver.i observed that driving in Nepal is not on the left hand side, but in the middle. There is no asphalt on the sides anyway. But its fun to slalom between the holy cows.
Trekking started from Nayapul at 1070m. As we started to walk I tried to get to know my guide a little bit more. Figured its going to be just me and him for the next three days. But he is not a man of many words. Anyway, meet Gelu. 34y old sherpa (one of many ethnic groups in Nepal). Sherpas are know in association with mt Everest. Tenzig was the first with Hillary to conquer it in 1953. My sherpa is by profession a climbing guide and he has been on top of Everest 5 times. 5 times! So there he was with me on a relaxing walk. He said after this he wants to go home to see his mother. To go home it takes 1 day bus ride and 3 days trekking. It took me less on the route London-Mumbay-London-Delhi-Kathmandu.
We were trekking pretty fast through rice fields and gaining altitude. It was fun to see local porters carrying a little chicken farm on their backs or women carrying huge (and I mean huge) baskets of grass to feed cows.
We did 7h of trekking and finished in a place close to natural hot springs. that was the warmest shower I got throughout the trek.
To be continued.