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Arriving at Namche Bazar one has the feeling that you have reached a little piece of civilisation in the midst of a mountainous wilderness. The rugged, towering mountains in all directions, the difficulty of travel, the lack of facilities and the overwhelming grandeur of the location becomes daunting to the senses, so it is with [...]

There are many astonishingly quaint buildings in the town of Namche Bazar. There seems to have been a special on blue paint at some stage! Wherever one looks there are lovely looking buildings. The town is very wealthy compared to the rest of Nepal, due mainly to the trekking, climbing and tourist trade. There was [...]

On the descent from Tengboche to Namche Bazar not many of us had much of an appetite at lunch time. This is one of the side-effects of altitude. We just nibbled at our food despite it being quite delicious. After lunch our guide gave me two options. The rest of the group were going back [...]

Although we were now descending towards Namche Bazar, there was another very steep climb left on the trek. After the steep descent from Tengboche there is a crossing over a suspension bridge over the river at the bottom of the valley. It is then another hard slog back to the top again. I’m convinced someone [...]

On my trek in the Himalayas I did not get an exceptional view of Mt Everest. Sure, it was there sticking up above several other nearer peaks, but at no stage on the trek was it an impressive peak. Not from my perspective anyway. Despite that I was just happy to have been in the [...]