Today, Tuesday Oct 29, we arrived in Chame. It's a small place almost under the mountain Annapurna II which is one of the big ones, just under 8000 m.
A jeep track reaches this far and our hike today followed it quite a bit. We climbed about 800 m. Our high point in a few days will be Thorung pass at over 5400 m so we have some climbing to do.
There are signs of civilization: our cell phones work for the first time since we started our trek in Arughat. Also there is an Internet cafe which I checked out. There was a young kid running the place. Cost was NRs 10 per minute. I gave him my smartphone, he entered the password, pointed at the clock and it was started. It worked well.
There are a few shops along the road selling wool hats, mitts, and other kinds to clothing. Too early to start shopping.
Nepal is having an election soon. There have been many posters promoting various candidates and more showing how to vote. The hammer and sickle is displayed on one poster. I assume the communist party or some such. I believe they were having a political rally down the street. You could hear it but we stayed away.
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