With each passing day, the weather improved. The idea for the day was to push all the way back to Koto, a long haul, but it would get us WiFi, hot showers and power to recharge things. The effects of altitude sickness had totally dissipated, and combined with the mostly down hill walking, it was a long but relatively easy day. It's interesting walking the opposite way. For a start, you have loads more energy, so there is more time to look around. Also, you see things you did not see on the way up, less cloud, more local knowledge etc. We only stopped for a Coke at one of the little teahouses, and then it was on to Koto.
Jules and I arrived at the checkpoint before Lille, and were politely questioned by a police officer, just to make sure we'd been to Phu with a guide. All OK, and then we did the rounds of the teahouses, before finding one that was just OK, lousy foods and no real WiFi. Koto is much smaller than Chame, but Chame was in the wrong direction for us, so we made do. Not the friendliest of town's on the Annapurna Circuit.
New teahouse in Meta
Final path out of the Phu valley
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