Australian Camp Trekking : Easy Scenic Trek for Women

Food and accommodation are important, besides the best seasons for the Australian base camp trek. After staying in a nice tourist standard hotel in Pokhara, the food and lodge accommodations around villages are simple. En route to designated overnight stops, the lodge accommodation is nice and small providing a limited food menu to enjoy. In Nepal the favorite and common meal is Nepali Dal Bhat, boiled or steamed rice. It is served with mild seasonal vegetable curry, including Dal, a lentil bean soup with homemade pickles, and hot sauce as options. The food menu lists from breakfast, lunch, and dinner to snack items. 

Breakfast from oats porridge, and cereals to cornflakes with toast/ chapattis, and pancakes includes a choice of egg variation. Lunch and dinner options include a variety of main courses from Continental, Chinese, Indian, Nepali, and Tibetan cuisines, along with a selection of soups. The most common food for snacks and main course is the Nepali Dal, Bhat with vegetables which include meat curry where available, mostly buffalo dry meats and fresh chicken are rare sometimes. The most available food besides Dal, Bhat is noodles, fried with vegetables or eggs. Another item is Tibetan Bread which is made from wheat, millet, or barley flour. Sometimes vegetable dumplings are also available, along with fried or boiled potatoes. 

Fresh bakery bread is rare around most villages en route to Australian Camp, but one can order pancakes or chapattis. It goes well with fresh country honey, jams, and pickles or butter to add along with refreshing hot drinks. In hot drinks, you can order Nepali Tea, coffee, and drinking chocolate where available. All lodges have large dining rooms with a fireplace to heat the rooms while you enjoy the meals.

Rooms with attached Bathrooms and Toilets are available in Australian Camp only in a few standard lodges. The lodges have electricity for the dining room powered by local hydro or solar power. Trekkers can charge electronic items at an extra cost per hour and for each gadget. Internet and Wi-Fi are available but slow and disturbing in some places due to weather and conditions of landscape terrains.

Nepal is a country of great diversity of landscape and people with their age-old religions, cultures, and heritage. The mid-hill people around the Annapurna Himalayas and Mid-West Nepal are Gurung hill tribes. The Gurung are the main inhabitants around the southern hills of the Annapurna Himalayas. The main Gurung villages on this trek at Kande, Australian Camp and Dhampus villages are inhabited by the Gurung ethnic tribal. The Gurung are predominantly farmers and cattle herders with livestock. The Gurung menfolk are also famous as Gorkha Soldiers in the Indian, Nepal, and British Army Regiments. The Gurung tribes follow both Hindu and Buddhist religions and cultures and celebrate their tribal festivals and events. The Gurung also practices ancient Bon sect of pre-Buddhism, a worship of nature and mountain spirits.