The Picture Gallery (contd...)
Day 4 : The day after the next day we chose to walk till Tengboche at around 3860 m. It's best known for its Buddhist monastery. It's the biggest and most beautiful monastery in the upper Khumbu. Its exposed position on a ridge in-between the Imja valley, surrounded by peaks like Numbur, Khumbui Yul Lha, Taboche, Nuptse, Everest, Lhotse, Ama Dablam, Kang Taiga and Tramserku makes it definitely to one of the most gorgeous places in this world.
View Northeast: Tengboche monastery with Ama Dablam
View towards the Lhotse - Nuptse wall with the summit of Mt. Everest lurking behind
Day 5 : It's one of the above mentioned mountains we'd chosen as our trekking goal, at least its base camp: the Ama Dablam, in the thinking of the Tibetan Buddhism one of the holiest places and residence of the Gods.
For this it took another half day of trekking to get to another village called Pangboche. Pangboche also has a Buddhist monastery, which is said to be the oldest in the Khumbu Himal, but it's meaning decreased by the rise of the Tengpoche monastery. Nobody seems to care anymore of the monastery building and so its fate is to tumble down. Once you could see there the famous "Yeti scalp", but this one got stolen, as they say.
We chose a lodge for our "base camp" at an altitude of nearly 4000 m. Next day we decided to get up to base camp at around 5000 m and all way back.
The way back to Lughla wasn't that interesting after all. We made it in two more days and took a plane back to Kathmandu. But don't think it's easy taking a plane back. It can cost lots of nerves!!! .......................................
