Namche Bazar to Thame

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A wake up call at 0630 with a cup of tea again and we had to have our bags packed ready for the porters by 7 oclock. We then went in for breakfast and were back on the trail by 0740. Todays walk was fairly level and after a good 3 hour trek we reached the village of Samde where we stopped for a 45 minute break and cups of lemon tea. The tea house we stopped at was run by a Sherpa who climbs Everest. He came out to chat to us and we discovered that he has already summited Everest 12 times and was currently preparing for his 13th climb. After leaving Samde, another hours walking brought us to the destination for today, the village of Thame. We are staying at the Valley View lodge which has superb views of snow capped peaks all around. In this village lives another Everest summit Sherpa who currently holds the world record for the number of times he has reached the summit, 21 I believe.

After checking into our rooms we had lunch then had an opportunity to wander around the village before meeting up again for another short walk. Thame itself is at 3800 metres above sea level but on the hill behind it is Thame Monastery at about 4000m so we had a half hour walk up to the monastery before coming back down to relax at the lodge before dinner.

You might notice a lack of some punctuation marks in this entry! I am using the lodge owners laptop which has a keyboard that is quite difficult to follow as well as being in a dark corner!

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Photos

Namche Bazar
Looking down onto the town from the climb to the Everest View Hotel

View from my room
... at the Camp du Base lodge in Namche

The Himalayan Giants
From the Everest View Hotel above Namche - Ama Dablam on the right, Nuptse in the centre, and Everest to the left of Nuptse

Thame
The view from our lodge

Comments

[Denny]

trip
enjoying the blog, have fun :-)

[Penny]

Laptop
We were discussing in the office yesterday what you had taken with you to type all your blog entries on - Denny said phone, I thought tablet, can't believe you are scamming laptops from the locals (well - maybe I can!)