Today was the first of our two acclimatisation days. We departed at 8.15am on a perfect cloudless morning for the short but steep 400mt climb to Everest View Hotel at 3,900mts. Everest and its mighty neighbours were in full view. Marsala tea on the balcony of the hotel made for a lovely half hour looking up the Khumbu Valley to Everest.
We then returned to Namche via lunch at beautiful Kumjung, sitting outside in the sun enjoying the panorama. We then visited the Kumjung school where Neil dropped off some pencils and felt pens that he had brought up. The school was happy to receive this. Our visit coincided with the lunch time bell going off and all of us being surrounded by several small children. A real highlight.
The steep drop down to Namche provided us some very good photo opportunities of the village.
Simi and Dan arrived back into Namche not feeling quite 100% and are relaxing back at the lodge. The rest of us have grabbed our last half-decent coffee at the bakery. From tomorrow, bakeries and coffees will become a distant memory..!!
The plan tomorrow is to depart Namche around 8am for Deboche. The walk will initially be pleasant and reasonably flat (apart form the climb out of Namche) but will then drop steeply to a river. We will have a light lunch at the river before our climb up to Thengboche. Then a little further on to our nights stop at Deboche.
Internet may be dodgy from Deboche, so don't panic if there is no update tomorrow night.
We then returned to Namche via lunch at beautiful Kumjung, sitting outside in the sun enjoying the panorama. We then visited the Kumjung school where Neil dropped off some pencils and felt pens that he had brought up. The school was happy to receive this. Our visit coincided with the lunch time bell going off and all of us being surrounded by several small children. A real highlight.
The steep drop down to Namche provided us some very good photo opportunities of the village.
Simi and Dan arrived back into Namche not feeling quite 100% and are relaxing back at the lodge. The rest of us have grabbed our last half-decent coffee at the bakery. From tomorrow, bakeries and coffees will become a distant memory..!!
The plan tomorrow is to depart Namche around 8am for Deboche. The walk will initially be pleasant and reasonably flat (apart form the climb out of Namche) but will then drop steeply to a river. We will have a light lunch at the river before our climb up to Thengboche. Then a little further on to our nights stop at Deboche.
Internet may be dodgy from Deboche, so don't panic if there is no update tomorrow night.
