We took a short time out of the morning to visit the Tenboche monastery (simple in decoration but a strong spiritual feeling ) before getting underway .
We descended from Tengboche straight back down to the river on a steep form of a goat track before climbing for an hour + straight back up the other side - this is so Nepal !
A morning cuppa provided some stunning valley views before we took an almost flat 90 min walk with Gompas on various corners into Namache the delightfully positioned village with its own in your face Mtn !
It felt like being back in civilization having a room with a hot shower and a western toilet - yet once again the guest house and common room paper thin walls meant temperatures soon plumetted down towards zero with the sun going down !
The hotel owner explained that in winter it gets so cold inside the hotel that the stock of bottled water often freeze !
We caught up with our good friend Birbal who has done heaps to make our trip successful and spent the night playing 500 this time as a foursome with our delightful porter SP on board ;
Michael -
A so Nepal day - straight steep down followed by straight steep up !
Beginning to worry about customs on return - Did you walk in any rural farm areas - "Yes on yak dung for 16 days straight" !
Monika -
OMG a hot shower after nearly a week without - the only drama being that you then had to put back on clothes that are now walking by themselves !
Finally also a good bed with most over here resembling the paths we walk on - hard & lumpy !
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