Saturday, November 19, 2011

"Namche Bazaar to Dole (4200m)" Felishj's photos about Everest Region, Nepal


Preview of Felishj's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Everest Region, Nepal Entry Title: "Namche Bazaar to Dole (4200m)" Entry: "This morning we woke at 6.15 and had breakfast at 7am (2 boiled eggs, a pancake, toast, fried potato and Masala tea) -- I was stuffed. We headed out at 7.30 am and after about an hour of walking got our first glimpses some snow capped peaks...YAY. It wasn't a perfectly clear day, but it was sunny and clear enough for us to see Ama Dablam and Everest way off in the distance. We got so excitied 'woo hooing' over seeing the first snow caps....now we really feel like we are back in the Himalayas. Ama Dablam means mothers purse in Tibetan. It has such a pretty and distinctive shape. We stopped for lunch at Phortse Tenga at 11.30. I had a massive plate of fried noodles that I barely got through half of (especially after my enormous breakfast). Phortse Tenga is at an altitude of 3680m and medically speaking we should have stopped here overnight as you are only meant to increase your sleeping altitude by around 300-400m each day. However, we skipped this and kept going straight to Dole (at 4200m -- which is an increase of over 700m in sleeping altitude in one day from Namche Bazaar). At lunch we met a lovely French couple. Alan, the French guy was quite old but a total flirt. He ended up flirting with us the whole way up to ...

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