Hike Ghandruk - Nayapul

From Ghandruk is a nice view of the southern part of Annapurna Sanctuary with a significantly dominant Annapurna South (7 219 m asl) and the „pocket-sized“ Hiun Chuli (6 434 m asl).
 

Ghnadruk, moreover, like almost every village in this area, is built on a slope and each „floor“ of the village is linked by the long staircase. Interesting are the original folk houses.
 

Landruk is not more than a kilometer from Ghandruk as the crow flies, but due to the deep valley of Modi khola the walk takes almost the whole day. The surrounding rice terraces are really impressive.
 

Also during the descent from Ghandruk are on the horizon visible glaciated Hiun Chuli. You just have to always count with the fact that the southern windward side of the massif is significantly more under the clouds than the northern side in Manang, where you can see the mountains almost every day in main season.
 

Already after a few minutes of descent from Ghandruk you will see a long part of the way that is still waiting for you. First overcome the canyon of the river Chane khola and then large rice area near villages Chane and Kimche.
 

After about half an hour walk away is the large agricultural area near villages Chane and Kimche. You will see here lots of interesting houses, some virtually sunken into rice terraces from all sides.
 

The path itself leads along the paved sidewalk – traversing for a while, descends for another while.
 

This descent stage is not very mountainous (considering the Nepalese conditions), but you will enjoy here a lot of nice views.

You will gradually descend almost to the bottom of valley of Modi khola. The last part of the trek through the canyon from Syauli Bazar to Birethanti and on to Nayapul is already quite boring without any interesting views.