It rained overnight, but the weather was beautiful this morning. We left at 8 am for an excursion further up into the foothills. We climbed up about another 1800 ft into the hills above Namche. The sky was clear this morning, and we had some great first views of Everest, Lhotse, and Ama Dablam. We were out for a good 5 hrs, and went through some small Sherpa villages on the way. On the way back we stopped at a small monastery. This one was very interesting because the scull of supposedly a “Yeti” is kept there. The story goes that the skull was brought to the village from another one as a gift, but was not welcomed, so it ended up stored at the monastery. For a small donation one can take a look at it, it indeed looks very intriguing… Well, tomorrow we will leave for Deboche, the trek should take us about 7 hrs. It is a long way to Everest base camp – a good 40 miles from Lukla.
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