Nepal: Gokyo-Re: Series- 4

Lukla to Lukla: 14th april and 28th April 2012

Series – 4: how to make Khukhuri Rum 

The horse takes the evil away with the help of the wind. Thats what these flag and the sound says.

Dudh kosi river - the river which we almost half way through followed was white as milk.

2nd time we get to have the glimpse of southern half of Everest from Namche Bazar area- because of its height you can actually see its peak minimum 6 days before we go closer. 

View from Sagarmatha National Park Visitor's Centre. 

 

left info and pic by sujoy das

View from Sagarmatha National Park Visitor's Centre: 

you can see Mt Kongde Ri

 

you can see Ama Dablam 

Thamserku as seen from Kyanjuma

 

 Thamserku as seen from Kyanjuma

Bhaktapur Durbar Square

 

Preparation for Khukuri Rum or local rum or ark: 
not sure. But if i have to believe the old man who was drying these wheat told me
as per his recipe- 
First Boil the Wheat then crush it and dry it in Sun for few days and again soak it in water for few days and ferment it and extract the juice and TaDa... the rum is ready.

Kathmandu Durbar Square 

Kumari Ghar - the architecture of it is amazing but you pray the girl who is now the Kumari (the human god child) dosn't come out and give you a darshan - as you would like to rescue her and teach her live a normal life.
 

Sunset in Durbar Squar, Kathmandu, 

Nepal: Gokyo-Re: Series- 3

Lukla to Lukla: 14th april and 28th April 2012

Series – 3: 30kg Up the Hill - Porter burden

Summer most imp for the Pahadi people, which is also a fav time for all the trekkers - what you see is - things going up - food cloths all storage for winter like Gas and also construction material like ply wood....oxygen cylinders for high altitude. 

As they dont have any motorway roads all are taken by humans, donkeys and Yaks. You will find in many places lots of traffic sp till the Namche Bazar - the trekkers the guides and its group helping the trekkers take their stuff up and donkeys and yaks and human taking personal stuff for construction to storage foods. 

they only get 4 months to take stuff up after that it starts snowing and the walk way roads are all closed impossible to walk. The weather is so bad for many months they are stuck at home. few people stay way up the mountains only during the season and then they come down. 

because of the labor intensive transport - as you go up the cost goes higher - but as you dont get anything and after a long trek you dont want to starve you might spend that money.  

Human can carry minimum 30kg to 100kg - depends on the age and weight of the person

Donkeys: ??

Yaks:  ??

Nepal times has a more details statistics

http://nepalitimes.com/news.php?id=19178#.UYiOWYLrYy4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 A basket ('doko') supported solely by a head-strap ('naamlo') porters can walk for hours resting often as they ascend up the trail. they rest on a stick which has a small U shape rest area built - like a resting chair.

Nepal: Gokyo-Re: Series- 2 14th april to 28th april 2012

Lukla to Lukla: 14th april and 28th April 2012

Series – 2: Lukla to Gokyo-re

Route: 

Lukla - North east of Nepal-Situated at 2,860 metres (9,383 ft)

Phakding - on the bank of Dudh kosi(river like white milk) river valley - 2800 metres 9186 ft

Namche Bazar - 3450 metres, 11318 ft

Khumjung - 3790m, 12434 ft

Dole - 4040m, 13254 ft

Machermo - 4410m, 14468 ft

Gokyo - 4750m, 15583 ft

Gokyo Ri 5357m, 17575 ft

Namche Bazar 

 

Prayer Stones

 

Map of Khumjung and Khunde village. 

this village has one school and one hospital  

3790m, 12434 ft

 

First glimpse of the Everest peak - the center left side it looks like the mountain is a chimney with smoke. 

on my way the mountains which i came across are:and what i remember are:
Thamserku, Kusumkang, Kongde Ri, Ama Dablam, Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Nupste and Makalu

River we meet on our way in many places are:  

Kyashar Khola and Dudh Kosi.

 

In this huge valley with so much of land all around still humans have to demarcate their areas by stones

 

Gokyo 3rd lake 

 

Glaciers which we dint walk  on

 

 

Walking towards fifth lake of Gokyo and the Cho Oyu Base Camp beyond

towards Tibet.

 

Cho Oyu

 

 

Photo and info credit of this above image: Sujoy Das

Gokyo 5th lake

 

Just the height makes the Everest most important mountain but i think other mountains around are extraordinary and this is actually the least attractive one.

it has many names

In Nepali: Sagarmāthā

In Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ -Jo mo glang ma; Chomolungma or Qomolangma i am not sure if all means "Holy Mother" but i think one of it means.

  In Chinese: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng; Shengmu Feng

what i like about these names are- the Asians always Refer to it as Female and the Europeans or the west refers to it has male. anything to do with nature Asians look at it as mother earth or one form of energy which translates to female. But in the west they always name it after a person who is in a higher authority and they where all male.