Pokhara to Jomsom (fly) then Jomsom to Kagbeni (bike).
What an astonishingly pretty day. Up at dark O'clock to catch the 6.30am flight, a little puddle hopper for a 20 minute flight up the valley into the Annapurnas. Even Pokhara airport was pretty beyond words and walking across the tarmac seeing the snow capped peaks all around us brought a tear to my eye.
The plane was climbing all the time - at times getting terrain alerts flash up as the terrain rose up quicker than the plane could climb, with giant peaks towering on both sides of us, and then in the last 30 seconds it levels off and lands at Jomsom, altitude 3,000m. It took 2 journeys (the plane just goes back and forth) to get all of us up, and a third for all the bikes to arrive, before a breakfast in Jomsom and then an easy hours ride up the river valley to our home for the evening - it really is a room with a view.
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