I want to trek the Anapurna Sanctuary

From Pokhara, I thinks it’s about a week trek to the Anapurna Sanctuary which is centerd in a kind of circle of various Anapurna mountains, the most famous of which is called Fish Tail in English, because the top is shaped like the tail of a fish. The Sanctuary is so named, because it is a safe spot. At night while camping there, you can hear avalanches all around you, but they can’t reach you. I don’t know if I could sleep. It sounds a bit nerve racking. But it’s calling me, and I have to go.

When I was in Katmandu, I saw this holy man sitting in front of a wall reading a book. When I got home, I drew this picture from memory.

When I was in Nepal, we planned to fly to Pokhara and do the Anapurna Sanctuary trek. When we got to the Katmandu airport, the flight was canceled due to bad weather. A week before a plane on that route crashed on the side of a mountain. We took it as an omen that we weren’t meant to go, so we climed a nearby mountain, Nagarkot, instead. But I can’t give up my dream of doing the Sanctuary and seeing Fish Tail in a partially clouded sunset.