Morning sun on mountains over Tuguche
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In Tuguche, I met an interesting German traveller. He was 45 years old and had been travelling for the past ten years, and declared that ten years ago he decided he was going to travel and never work again. He had travelled extensively in Latin America, SE Asia, China, and India. He travelled for about eleven months at a stretch before returning to a base of operations, this time in Hat Yai, on the Thai-Malay border, where he had a rented apartment. On this trip, he had spent six months (three months at a time) in China, and four months in India, and had planned on being in Nepal for two months. This was his second time in Nepal. He was going to go back to Germany for about a month before returning to China for a few more months to explore the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. He was a very strange character, having already spent 31 days on the Annapurna Circuit (I met him on his 18th rest day). It normally takes folks 18-21 days to hike the Circuit. He had a few books to keep him company, which described the flora and fauna of the region. He explained that he had worked for nine years before his retirement. I have no idea what he did, but he seemed to indicate various jobs. Surprisingly, talking to him about what he did was immensely uninspiring and I knew I could never do what he did.
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