Nepali Notes and Observations March 23: Out on the Route!

Nepali Notes and Observations 23 March

After celebrating together with the Nepalese holiday of colors - Holi, after pre-departure bustle, purchase of everything necessary, seven hours of shaking in the local bass on the road Kathmandu - Dunche, we finally found ourselves in nature, began our hike in the Himalayas.

On the first day, March 23, they were going to walk to Deorali, where instead of destroyed by the earthquake, the Guesthouses now have a tent with cloths for tourists. However, it turned out that on the way, a little does not reach Deorali there is a new Guesthouse. About this our Mim told oncoming guides Nepalese. In this "new" guesthouse, we decided to stop, especially since the first climb up the mountain and the first kilometers of the way were not easy for everyone.

The new Guest turned out to be an unfinished house, with windows without glasses, a roof of a thin sheet of iron and a stove on which food was cooked and which mercilessly smoked, so that eyes began to water. We slept together in seven-seater beds:-) A group of Nepalese youth from Kathmandu, walking approximately along our route, also stayed there. This added color to the night, because Nepali youth happily drank raksi until late at night and communicated in Nepalese style, when everyone was talking at the same time and loudly.

Guest was not pleased with the high food prices, which, apparently, will accompany us and constantly increase before we cross the Laurebin Pass.

In the end, by the night everyone calmed down, our fatigue after early climbing and moving to the local bass took its toll and we fell asleep.

On the second day of the track, March 24, we had planned to go out at 8am, but we left later, as our clothes scattered everywhere did not want to fit into the porters' backpacks.

We went on the route at 8:40, a short walk up the serpentine trail, and by 12 p.m. we arrived at Singh Gompa.

The steep slopes of the valley, the slopes hiding in the haze, forests of coniferous trees and flowering rhododendrons, Tibetans, and generally around the Himalayas:-)