Nepal. "Capital of Sherland"
Live blogger binzajr writes: Namche Bazaar is the capital of the so-called Sherplandia. The village is located at an altitude of 3440 meters. The village has everything you need for life - many shops, loggias, hotels, a school, several museums and monasteries. Electricity and mobile communication work, by the way, communication works well on almost the entire track to the base camp, there is an “airport” nearby that accepts only helicopters.
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2. Laundry.
3. Where without a healten?
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5. The weather on the whole track was good, there was no rain. After lunch, as a rule, everything is covered with clouds, at night and in the morning the sky is clear.
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08. Altitude can kill - remember!.
09. Near each house there is a lamp for burning something in the morning.
10. They heat houses with manure.
11. Monastery.
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16. A beautiful view of Namche opens up from a height. Due to the clouds, the picture changes every minute.
17. Some 10 minutes pass and you are standing in a cloud.
18. Any whim for your money. About prices. The price for a room in the loggia is the same throughout the track - 200 rupees. Food from 300 to 600 rupees per serving, depending on the altitude, a large thermos of tea from 400 to 800 rupees. Phone charger 200, warm shower 400. 100 rupees is about 1 bucks.
19. The next day, the plans included an acclimatization hike to 3900 m towards the village of Kumjung.
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22. Tourists rod on a parallel and steeper rise.
23. Gaining a little height, the beautiful Ama Dablam (6856 m) appeared.
24. And here is the airport.
25. Everything is real here. Warehouse with fuel.
26. Sales office.
27. Eyes look at all this.
28. Below the village of Gumjung. It is there, in one of the monasteries, that the scalp of the Yeti is kept. I will write a separate post about this. And we go up to the observation deck.
29. One of the few places on the track where you can see Everest. In general, the plans are to reach Kala Patara (5545 m), from there you can see Everest a little better. If you have problems with mountain climbing, then you can generally walk to Namche and look at Everest from here, many do just that, but we have other plans :) In the photo, Everest (8848 m) is a small tip to the left of the center of the frame, Nuptse (7861 m), to the right of Lhotse (8516 m) - the 4th highest mountain in the world. On the right is Ama Dablam (6856 m).
30. Everest is the tip of our earth.
31. Lhotse.
32. Ama Dablam.
33. You can look at this forever. The photograph cannot convey the scale of the panorama.
34. We compare cards and move on.
35. Alpine monastery.
36. Having put on a “longer” lens, I see a monastery in Tengboche (3867 m), we will be there tomorrow.
37. And even further Pangboche (3958 m).
38. Behind the endless valley.
39. Amphiatro-like Namche Bazaar.
40. Territory of the Sherpa Museum.
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42. As I said, the village is quite advanced (the largest on the track). In the evening we found an Irish pub.
43. And a "cool" Internet cafe.
44. Sherpas are big fans of photography and sometimes they ask to be photographed.