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Nepal Trip 2007: Day 16: Namche Bazaar-Tengboche 27 October 2007 9:03 am

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Today is a Saturday, which means the weekly bazaar is on in Namche. We’re also scheduled to walk to Tengboche, the location of the Mani Rimdu festival, which takes place over the course of nine days at the end of October, culminating at the full moon at the end of October or beginning of November. It’s a major tourist attraction, but I’m willing to brave the crowds because it sounds awesome. Here’s the official Tengboche website — it’s in English, and there’s information about Mani Rimdu. Today, for instance, there’s a blessing for the general public. I don’t know if we’re going to make it to that particular ceremony, what with the market today and it being a 12-mile hike up to 12,882 feet (3867 meters), but we’ll see. Also there’s plenty to see and do tomorrow, oh yes. Maybe I will arrange to sponsor tea for the monks. That seems oddly perfect, really.

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This post was written and scheduled for automagical posting in the week before I left on this crazy adventure. I hope to write many more posts about the trip — you know, with more actual details and pictures and stuff — but for now this is all we’ve got while my intergoogle access is all kinds of sporadic during my travels from October 9 until November 6.