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Published: June 29th 2013
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“Gokyo lake trek” = 2010.03.15 – 2010.03.27 http://www.facebook.com/sanam.sherpa - for more photos.
Group was from Penang Adventure Club under Mr. Wong’s leadership. And I was a bit worried about the weather. Luckily we flew to Lukla at exact time. It was very adventurous flight. During the flight we saw only huge bundle of clouds over the sky. Our captain looked very alert to bypass those bundle of clouds. Finally aircraft took very high altitude to cross the Pike hill and horribly drop down to land at Lukla. Our porters were waiting us at Lukla where we had breakfast together and we headed to Phakding. Weather was cool and a bit cloudy. Though it was early of spring season, there were many tourists on the way. Second day we headed to Namche bazar from Phakding. Trail was mostly up. We met dozens of local porters who were doing up – down taking loads from Lukla to Namche. Some of them were young girls as well. Several times we had to stop to let convoys of mules and Yaks pass. Luckily we encountered with Phasant on the way which is national bird of Nepal. Next day we took rest at
Namche for acclimatization. We visited around Namche bazaar. More or less all kinds of hiking gears were available there.we felt as we were visiting somewhere in the tourist market Thamel in kathmandu to visit in Namche bazaar. Fourth day we headed to Photse thanga. Shortly after we headed from Namche, and had a opportunity to see majestic scenario of world highest mountain Mt. Everest range. All of us took little break to catch the gorgeous view of Everest on camera.We had lunch at Mong. Dozens of blue sheep were grazing near the Mong in north. Then we had to get down around 500 meter to get to Photse Thanga. In the evening it was getting black clouds over the sky. Next day in the morning there was snow all around because of heavy snow fall at night. Our group became quite happy and headed towards Machhermo at day fifth.We were the first group to clear the way. It was a bit hard due to hanging down the branches of the trees. Snow fall began again to get the Dole. We kept on going inside the fog. And we had lunch at Lhabarma located at hill side with only a lodge.Snow
fall stopped during the lunch time and weather also got clear. Then we slowly passed through many kharkas like high pastures. We saw a big group of mountain birds on the way which seemed quite familiar with peoples. They did not run to see us at all. More mountains and glacier were visible on the way. Finally we reached to Machhermo at around 5 o’clock after day long snow hike. There were around dozens guest houses. It was beautiful place situated at huge flat land. On the day six, we headed to Gokyo in the morning. Along the way our attention was grabbed by spectacular mountain and glacier view. Lakes were the another attraction on the way. A couple of Brahminy ducks were swimming on the lake which was making the lake more beautiful. We reached to Gokyo in the noon. There were also around dozens of guest houses beside the Gokyo lake. Lake was fully freeze and covered by snow as well. Though it was freezing cold, our group spent quite long time over the freezing lake taking pictures and enjoying with snow. All of our group members were very tired. And next day we got back same way
instead of going Gokyo ri.
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