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Published: April 7th 2018
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Peter Rabbit all ready to rock on Easter morning!
Notice how much cleaner he is since he last featured. Day 6 Chhokang Paro (3033m) – Nyile (3361m)
Easter Sunday and April fools day all rolled into one. Fortunately we remembered EastervSunday so started the day with Easter eggs and introduced the Nepalese guys to the Easter egg tradition. Not sure they quite knew what to make of it especially as we had them pretty much straight out of bed and we’ll before breakfast.
Unfortunately we totally forgot April fools day so no practical jokes, although Gordie did and continues to entertain us with verbal jokes!
Had decided to leave at about 8.00 and got away about on time heading towards Nyile.
At one stage we were following an old Nepalese guy carrying, over his shoulder one of the single plows they use. He looked remarkably like Jesus carrying the cross, something I remarked to the other guys. They quietly corrected my knowledge of Christianity and told me the cross carrying happened on the Friday, but perhaps here in Nepal things just run a bit late!
As we are now getting higher we’ve moved into taking Diamox to help combat altitude sickness. Unfortunately one of the side effects is it is a diuretic hence
Lemon tea at Lamagaon
Cleanest squat toilet of the trek so far! the days are now punctuated with frequent toilet stops. Arch lost his Diamox and McVet found the one he thought he’d left in Kathmandu so the gods appear to be smiling on us (could be the efforts were going to walking the correct way around mani walls and chortens!
We’re really in the Tibetan influenced part of the country now. The walking today was both a lot easier than the previous day (steady uphill but nothing really steep) and totally engrossing with the changing scenery and numerous villages.
As the valley flattened out there were large areas of fertile land being ploughed by single farrow plots behind Dozpa (cross breed Yaks and cows). Behind the man and two Dozpa ploughing were ladies hoeing by hand and then planting the spring crops. Generally it seems the barley crop is planted and now they are planting potatoes.
The trail was fenced with stone walls, to keep the ponies, cattle and any other animals out of the fields. Some of the fields had fences that had holes in them, all smaller than a goat or similar sized animal, so we assume they were made this way to save stones.
Heating kettle at Rachen Gompa
They use these parabolic aluminium reflectors to heat pots and kettles. Also along the way were innumerable main walls and chortens all of which needed to be passed in an anticlockwise (i.e. the chortens or mani wall on your right hand side) which did cause quite some humour at times when one of our little party went the wrong way. Interestingly the Nepalese were as inconsistent with this as the rest of us.
Stopped at Lamagaon for breakfast at about 9.00. The tea house was spotlessly clean (or at least clean by Nepalese standards) so decided we might stop here on the way back down the valley. Chris checked out the rooms and with the one issue of having no hooks or nails to hang stuff from they looked better than the average. We did point out to the owner how some nails on the walls would enhance his establishment!
The area we are travelling through here continues to be quite fertile with relatively large areas of fields either already planted in barley or being ploughed and planted in crops for the spring growing season.
A couple of hours on from Lamagaon we arrived in Nyile.
After lunch of Momos and lemon tea set off for a
gentle walk up the hill on the opposite side of the river to the village to an old (600 years) Gompa. Relatively strenuous walk of probably 2/3 Haka but intersting having a look through the Gompa and great views back down the valley.
Home to the tea house for dal baht, lemon tea and cards.
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