Day One - The 'easy' day.

Beautiful weather, sunny with a breeze, is about the best you could wish for in the introduction to the mountains. We walked/trekked 12 kilometres today, and I'm feeling it now. I'm writing on my iPhone as I lie in my tent after dinner :)
The food has been amazing - tasty, simple and a couple of different courses for each meal.

The walk was both surprisingly easy in parts, bur killer in others. The flat-ish parts were lovely and I was able to keep a good pace which was good. And I'm definitely glad we chose to get the walking poles. The uphill parts felt extremely steep in bits, and feels like a taster for tomorrow, which I'm dreading.
I've sweated a lot, got a little bit burnt, but overall I'd say today was mostly a success!

It was only after lunch that I had some really bad stomach cramps that I started to lag in energy and feel really rough. After walking for over an hour with them I finally found a toilet at our campsite and practically ran to it. Afterwards I had a nap (our tents were set up by the porters before we arrived) and felt a load better.
On a funny note, during dinner we were talking about what to expect for dessert and out of a thousand different things I pulled 'flambé' out from thin air. Then we met the chef. Who was dishing us out flambè. I must be psychic ;) I think it's the altitude!!

Will fill you in with how I go tomorrow. A climb of over 1200m in 10kms. I'm almost sick at the thought...