What a great sleep! I slept soundly from 8pm to 5am. It rained and rained and
rained. The TV in the dining room had flooding downstream on the news, causing
damage in Nepal, India, Bangladesh. After a fantastic breakfast of dal and
Tibetan bread we packed up quickly - "The porters want your bags everyone!" -
and set off.
Yum
I want this cup. Groundbreaking innovation
Intergen fanclub
Misty valley
Quick regroup
Sinuwa Lodge for tea
Retracing our steps to Chomrong
The view from Chomrong - lots of fresh snow in the col
Yes it was still raining, but warm and nice not chilly and windy. Little bit
down, little bit up to Chomrong for lunch and a long stop where we perused the
reading material. Hikers' Guiding Association annual with various articles of
positive criticism of Nepali guides and how they could all up their game
together (eg 'learn the culture of the local area you're guiding in if you're
not from there!', 'Both understand and set the expectations of your guests',
'Let's make sure that altitude sickness scam gets stamped out for good'). What
appeared to be a school atlas, all in Nepali. Alex and I tried to work out
what the atlas was all about. Maps? Sure. But other geological and cultural
maps? Not so easy. The pages of bar charts and suchlike had us stumped.
Looks familiar
It was hot and it was yummy
Downvalley mist
Upvalley mist
After our long break we went down, down, down to Jhinu, where I discovered I'd
been misspelling it (and mispronouncing it too) with an extra D for the last
eight years.
Jhinu with no D, great to be back
We got our rooms allocated and then off to the hot pools we trotted. (30 min each way. Rough track so wear okay footware - strapped on sandals, not jandals or suchlike.) WONDERFUL after our cold days. We soaked and chatted and Karna and some kids entertained us with animal impressions.
Noice
I splashed in a nice cool stream on the way back - and emerged with four
leeches on my feet. (Yes, you WILL get leeched en route).
So good being warm, dry and clean for the first time in days.
Dinner was pizza and chips. Yum. Sparse at first but then the seconds, thirds,
fourths came out. Low staff (Dashain again) meant the food took a while so
they got us all eating at once and then kept topping up. Great strategy.
The beers and raksie were flowing again and some of us moved outside under a
porch with the porters. What fun! We sang and danced to a little UE Boom
playing the Resham Firiri song . I was having a great time! But my raksie glass kept refilling itself
and I decided that slipping off to bed was the best strategy.
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