Everest Base Camp Trek Dispatch
April 26, 2014 – Walking Through Beautiful Forests on Our Way to Thame
Today is Saturday and Namche has their local market. People from all over the Khumbu go to the Saturday market and they load up their yaks and take goods home for the week. We walked to the market and stopped for coffee in our friend’s coffee shop. We left Namche around 8:30 am.
Local market in Namche
Ryan checking out the items in the local market
Enjoying some coffee in our friend’s coffee shop
We walked through beautiful forests on our way to Thame. It is spring so on the way we saw beautiful rhododendron flowers. Here are some photos of the different flowers we enjoyed along today’s trek.
The beautiful rhododendron flowers add beauty and color to our trek to Thame
Yak trains on the way to Thame
Passing Mani walls along the trail
Crossing a bridge over the Bhote Kosi river
Into the canyon we go
Now we are in Thame. Thame is one of the famous Sherpa villages. Many famous climbers are from this village. Ang Rita Sherpa, Apa Sherpa who climbed Everest 21 times! We are also very close to the Tibetan border.
Everyone is doing very good!
– Temba