Trekking Distance: 9.4km
Trekking Time: 5hrs 55mins
Timing:
0710hrs - Left Phakding's Nameste Lodge (2637m)
0955hrs - Arrived at Josale's River View Terrace Rest. (2714m) for Lunch
1110hrs - Left Josale
1400hrs - Arrived at Namche Bazar
1420hrs - Arrived at Namche Bazar's Himalayan Lodge (3425m)
We work up at around 5.30am and packed our bags. Breakfast was served at around 6.30am and by 7.10am, we started Day Two towards Namche Bazar. The first part of the trek was relatively comfortable, mainly gentle slopes. The valley view was beautiful though the river was not gushing as magnificantly as I had wished - It wasn't the raining season.
Morning view from Nameste Lodge
At 9.30am, we arrived at the Sagarmatha National Park for registration. According to their tabulations, there were over 4661 trekkers in this region in April 2008 and over 9260 in October 2008. This is how popular the Everest Region is.
After lunch at Josale, we continued on the 2nd part of the trek. After crossing a massive bridge, our passage up slope was blocked by a large herd of Yaks. It became "painful" having to trek so slowly behind them and so we decided to "jump queue". Once the window of opportunity opened, we skillfully squeezed through the yaks while avoiding being rammed by their powerful horns.
I was glad when Furba told us that we have reached Namche Bazar. I was dead tired after ascending the steep and never ending slope that took us 2hrs to complete. But to my shocking surprise, our lodge was located on the upper terrace of Namche! It took me another 20mins to climb flights of stairs before finally settling down into our lodge at 3425m.
Namche Bazar
After a hot shower, we headed into the streets of Namche to rent our down sleeping bags and down jackets.
That night we were rewarded with Yak Sizzler meal. Yummy...but....
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