{"id":6018,"date":"2018-09-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2026-10-29T03:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:38:30","slug":"annapurna-circuit-biking-chapter-4-ice-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/annapurna-circuit-biking-chapter-4-ice-lake.htm","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 4 &#8211; In The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>&#8220;The Ice Lake is pure crystal water although I was expecting ice to be in the lake like its name!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>&#8220;The Ice Lake and a red coat man- I stand out lol!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>&#8220;Bii- the sweetheart we met en route and would later become friends going on the same journey. She\u2019s from Australia of the Vietnamese descent.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>&#8220;I was the last man standing from Beards and Bicycles although all my friends had discontinued, I kept going and this is at Yakkharka.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>&#8220;A long hike to the Ice Lake- behind me are the massifs Annapurna I and II.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me, Bii and Graham would have to continue the journey and I had my bike all set to head further up. We got to the high camp at Thorong Phedi where we took a snack break at the bakery there. Can you believe that you get fresh German bread at a bakery that\u2019s set up at an altitude of 4500m high? The bakery and the owner pleasantly surprised me; he was a big Bob Marley fan and even had long dreadlocks mimicking those of Bob\u2019s. He had a German girlfriend but every time she went back home to Germany he would spend it with his other girlfriend! He was two-timing the ladies and none of them were aware of the other. I got myself a croissant and tea, enjoying the freshness of the soft bread in the bakery.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Ice Lake is pure crystal water although I was expecting ice to be in the lake like its name!&#8221; &#8220;The Ice Lake and a red coat man- I stand out lol!&#8221; &#8220;Bii- the sweetheart we met en route and would later become friends going on the same journey. She\u2019s from Australia of the Vietnamese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/annapurna-circuit-biking-chapter-4-ice-lake.htm\" class=\"read-more-link\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6050,"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions\/6050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustichimalayan.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}