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Phu
Phu, perched high on a hill
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A trek to Nar Phu Valleys
Annapurna, Nepal
October 2006 Page 2
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Meta to
Phu Gate -
Notes/Itinerary
Page 2 Phu
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Towards
Nar
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Nar & Kang La
Phu Village
Chortens at the gompa - and snowy mountains above the trail back
to Meta and Nar
According to sources in Phu,
Phu has 30-50 houses and 180-300 inhabitants.
Probably the village is gradually getting depopulated and people have moved to Kathmandu
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some even to New York City.
On the other hand a number of new houses
have been built since I was here
four years ago. In those few years,
also, the small children have turned into
sometimes quite aggressive
beggars.
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Phu seen from the gompa |
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Phu seen from the river |
NB: Klik på billedet for forstørrelse / Click on photo to enlarge
The Gompa
Lama in front of
Tashi Lhakhang Gompa on a neighboring hillside
I visit the gompa and drink butter tea
in the kitchen and eat buckwheat bread.
A mad girl is tethered to a pole in the wasteland outside the gompa.
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Lama and children at the gompa |
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This woman is cooking
buckwheat bread on the stove |
Holy books
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A young lama with the head lama
Phu seen from the gompa
Above: The barley harvest is over. Now in the
courtyards grains are separated from the straw by hand (right) and threshed
manually with a flail (left and middle)
The big fortress-like houses at the
top of the mountain used to be a gompa.
From here the lamas and the
villagers fought Chinese invaders.
The middle above:
After the grain has been threshed in the field, it is carried home
on the back in big bags
Yaks on the way home from the fields
NB: Klik på billedet for forstørrelse / Click on photo to enlarge
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Page 1
Meta to
Phu Gate -
Notes/Itinerary
Page 2 Phu
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Page 3
Towards
Nar
Page 4
Nar & Kang La
Itinerary/Rute
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October 7. Koto – Meta. 6 hours’ fast
walking
October 8. Meta – Phu. 7 hours’ fast
walking
October 9. Phu
October 10. Phu – Nar. 9
hours’ fast walking
October 11 - 12. Nar
October 13. Nar –
Kang La -
Ngawal. 7 hours.
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The trail above the gorge north of Phu leads to
Ngoru
kharka and then continues for two days towards Tibet |
Last update April 07
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