Jacek Piwowarczyk Photography - Nepal - Trekking to Langtang Region - Part 1

TREKKING TO THE LANGTANG REGION

Trekking to Langtang turned out to be a nice surprise for me. The valley - the first National Park in the country - is very beautiful indeed and an important advantage over other trekkings is that already the second day of the trekking offers beautiful views of snowy mountains and incredible diversity of vegetation over short distance and period of time. The area beyond Kyanjin is wild and virtually deserted with very few people get to Langshisa Kharka. More people are attracted by Tsergo Ri but most of the trekkers just climb Kyanjin Ri or walk to Lirung Tsang glacier. The accommodation is excellent and going at the end of the trekking season (mid May for example) means very few people. Langtang can be easily combined with Gosainkund and Helambu thus giving about 15 days of very interesting and pleasant "teahouse" trek.

A bus trip from Kathmandu to Dhunche

This is probably the most unpleasant and the most dangerous part of the whole trekking, however quite difficult to avoid unless somebody wants to walk via Helambu and Gosainkund twice or Ganja La pass is accessible. Two days after my journey the bus rolled over just outside Kathmandu killing 7 people and injuring dozens. The road is narrow, exposed and drivers are not very skillful, terrible and reckless. The only good thing are views over Ganesh and Langtang Himal.


A bus journey to Dhunche is an experience of its own. It is very crowded inside the bus) the best seats are in front, next to the door), however still a lot of people travel on the roof (which is of course illegal and all of the people get isnide temporarly before the checkpoint).


Inside the bus	Ganesh Himal from Ranipauwa.


A journey to Dhunche is very picteresque and morning view over Ganesh and Langtang Himal from Ranipauwa is particularly beautiful.


The bus journey end earlier than we expected. One of the trucks in front of us broke dawn blocking the road completely and we did not have much choice but to walk for last nine kilometers to Dhunche.

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