Nepal (October 2023): An Unplanned Mini-Trek South of Simikot

1. Nepalgunj to Simikot and Simikot to Kermi

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At Nepalgunj airport, loading of the Summit Air plane bound to Simikot shortly before takeoff.

Views over rice fields from the plane just after takeoff.

Glimpses of Mount Saipal barely emerging from a thick cloud layer.

Left : Villages surrounded by terraced fields, shortly before reaching Simikot. Right: View over the Humla Karnali Nadi (river) before landing in Simikot.

The Summit Air plane at Simikot airport.

Traditional houses in the old neighborhood of Simikot,

View over Simikot and its airport.

All the photos below were taken between Simikot and Kermi. I did not keep track of their precise locations.

Village and terraced fields on the south (right) side of the Humla Karnali Nadi.

I took the two photos below in October 2017 along the same trail (see here). They show what was arguably the most iconic site along the trail between Simikot and the Tibetan border at Hilsa: a tall waterfall and a trail section carved into a rock cliff.

This is a 2023 photo from the same site. The cliff had been dynamited and irreversibly destroyed to make way for a very dangerous and barely passable (but for how long?) road.

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