DAY 22 : NEPAL : Manang (3540m) - Acclimatisation day

Rest and acclimatisation day in Manang.

A good dusting of snow on the Annapurna Range - the view from our window.

Locals clear the snow.

Main street Manang. Definitely not a one-horse town..at least it has horses going for it.

Due to bad weather we cancelled plans for a walk to a glacial lake, but we found another diversion. A local cinema screening among other climbing films, Seven years in Tibet.

Not the most glamourous cinema but it was heated, unlike anywhere else, and generator- powered, luckily as there was a black-out through out the town.

During the movie we were served hot black tea and packets of pop corn - the heater was topped up with yak's dung and a squirt of metho. We loved the experience!

Back to the hotel in the dark and Khem had made us a cake for dessert. I don't know how he does it with only a portable kero stove.

M&M

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