Mount Annapurna (28°35′46″N 83°49′13″E)

Today we traveled to mount Annapurna, which was a good day to go because the sun was shining. We didn’t get very close to the mountain, only close enough to have a great view of the mountains,    while we learned about the Eurasian plate. 

http://www.himalayanmagictreks.com/nepal/trekking-in-nepal/annapurna-region-trek/annapurna-base-camp-trek.html

The Eurasian plate is a divergent boundary, but that is just the general classification. It is more specifically known as a collision boundary. A collision boundary is when two joining plates that have continents fuse together and become one. When the two plates collide the crust at the boundary pushes upward which creates a mountain range. 

 

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/tectonics-collide.html

The Himalayas were created when India and China were pushed together and it is still happening now at about 5 cm each year and the most recent earthquake around 11 months ago.

I should probably go it’s really late and I am super tired, tomorrow is my last day I want to go to a really good restaurant. See you in the next country!