Day 9 of ABC Trek

Day 9 – Trek out of Jhinu

10/29/25

Our last day didn’t come a minute too soon. As I’d feared, spending so much of the day prior wet and cold had left me sick, with a sore throat and fatigue. And my sis was suffering from some serious blisters that had been developing more each day on her feet, to the point that some were now infected. So when I say in hindsight that we should not have gone to those hot springs – this is what I mean. I should have been dry, warming up somewhere out of the rain; she should not have put her feet with open wounds into warm spring waters; and we should have rested. And NOT given the leeches a free meal. But hey, now we know.

We took our time in the morning, for once in no rush to get going. So after our last tea house breakfast – banana pancakes – we started the slow walk down to the bridge, hand-on-shoulder in tandem, at 8:10am.

By 8:30 we were at the bridge, some of us enjoying the experience more than others, and starting back up the other side when two groups of mules and ponies came down to carry supplies across the bridge. We paused to watch them go, so impressed at how well trained they were to just calmly walk across this long, swaying, narrow bridge high over the river.

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We reached the end at 8:55am, 45 minutes after leaving Jhinu, and hopped in a jeep to take the terrifying, bouncy journey back to Nayapul, and then to Pokhara.

We did it.