Nepal Trip 2007: Day 15: Rest Day in Namche Bazaar 26 October 2007 9:02 am
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, travel, health , 1 comment so farI believe I mentioned yesterday that it would be good for us to rest up in Namche Bazaar while our bodies manufacture red blood cells like crazy, yes?
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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.
Nepal Trip 2007: Day 14: Day Trips from Namche Bazaar 25 October 2007 9:01 am
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, travel , add a commentToday we’re scheduled to visit the Everest View Hotel and Khunde hospital, in large part to help us acclimatize to the altitude: spending an extra night in Namche Bazaar will be awesome after short trips into the higher altitudes around the town.
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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.
Nepal Trip 2007: Day 13: Namche Bazaar 24 October 2007 9:32 am
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, travel , add a commentNamche Bazaar (also spelled Namche Bazar) is the main city of the Khumbu region and the site of a Saturday market where several of the region’s ethnic groups come together to trade. Just for the record, while I used to think Sherpa was a job description, it turns out to also be the name of an ethnic group — people of Tibetan descent who live in the regions south of Everest: Solu (where Phaplu is), Pharak (along the banks of the Dudh Kosi river we’re following north), and finally Khumbu, the region furthest north and of the highest altitude (11,000 feet on average!)
Namche Bazar is big enough that it shows up on Google Maps with a name and everything! Check it out! If you’ve been playing along with the other maps, you can see the river we followed north and maybe recognize some of the other places we’ve been, even if they don’t have names. (more…)
Nepal Trip 2007: Day 12: Monjo 23 October 2007 1:18 pm
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, travel, health , 1 comment so farAnother trekking day today, and once again I’m not even attempting to get the correct count. What I do know is that Monjo (also spelled Monju or Mondzo depending on where I read about it) is where we enter Sagamartha (Everest) National Park! It’s at the foot of Namche hill, and that the trail descends for a while from Lukla before rising back up to Namche, which means I have a little bit of glorious fun and easy downhill to look forward to before doing some more climbing, which I must confess is not my forte. My one consolation is that by this point I will have been on altitude drugs for several days, and also I will have been walking for like a week, and so I hope to have accrued enough strength to not be a complete wimp.
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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.
Nepal Trip 2007: Day 11: Chaunrikharka 22 October 2007 1:15 pm
Posted by Tracy in : nepal, travel , 3 commentsAnother trekking day, and one that might take us to Lukla airport instead of Chaunrikharka, but I’m rooting for the latter because I know we’re flying out of Lukla later on in the trip anyway. Apparently things get a little touristy outside Lukla, what with it being the place lots of people fly into on their way to Everest base camp. One of our guidebooks had a hilarious description of how you can always spot the trekkers starting their trip at Lukla on account of their being ridiculously overdressed — sure it’s high up, but you probably don’t need to be wearing your snow goggles yet. Stuff like that. Anyway, Chaunrikharka is another place that shows up in guidebooks but not my map, which is making me wonder what’s going on here linguistically. The name apparently means “pastures for yak-cow cross-breeds,” but my guidebook doesn’t specify what language it has that meaning in. Sigh.
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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.
