Let’s go back in time, back to when I was planning this trip. I already knew I wanted to go to Nepal for one month. But what would I do there?

Well, since it would be the end of my trip, I would want to enjoy the most of it. So… I would try and do a trek. And also, I would want to take time to reflect on my travels and my going back to France etc. so yoga retreat sounded good.

So that’s why, the next 6 months, every time I was thinking about Nepal and trying to plan something I ended up looking for yoga retreat centers and cheap treks. Because it would be my first long trek, I wanted to go with people who knew what they were doing up in the mountains. I ended up, 3 weeks before arriving in Nepal, finding an organization called “yoga and trek”. Youhouuu!! Perfect! So now what?

They had a medium level trek, 12 days long, right in the middle of my month there and a long more difficult one starting the day of my arrival. So… after one week of discussion with myself and since I had strictly no trekking gear with me, I ended booking the 12 days trek to the A.B.C.

Honestly, while I was booking it, I had strictly no idea what it would be like and where I was going etc. I just knew it should be great and every comment about Yoga and Trek where awesome so I had no worries. Until… until the day after I arrived in Kathmandu : so many trekking gear shops with stuff for very hard conditions. Do you really need all that when you’re trekking in Nepal?

I had to buy new trekking shoes since my old ones where getting holes in it… so I went in a few shops and each time I asked for shoes for the A.B.C. trek they would look desperately at me : “you need high shoes with Gortex cover and… you have large feet, we have nothing for you!” Until one shop actually offered to let me try men shoes. So I had my shoes and 5 days to break them.

And 5 days to worry a little bit more about the upcoming trip : what gear would I really need? Would it be that hard? Would I suffer from cold and exhaustion? So many worries! So I read as much as I could about those trek. Sometime I would find people saying they felt minus 17°C up in the A.B.C. surely, it wasn’t in April, was it? And it was just one night no?

In the end, I bought more layers of clothes, and I convinced myself everything was going to be alright, I wasn’t going to be alone, surely they would tell me if I needed more gear. And as for the difficulty of the trek… oh well, I was able o finish a half marathon, why wouldn’t I be able to finish that trek? It might take time but I would do it.

Let’s just hope the group will be the same level as I!