Day 11: Namche rest day #1

To help with acclimatisation the suggested approach is to rest for one day at Namche before heading higher. As youngsters sometimes have more problems with altitude, and as time was not an issue for us, we decided to take it slow and spend 2 rest days in Namche.

On our first rest day we walked around Namche (which does not take long), checked out the Tibetan market (mostly clothes for porters and guides and locals), and spent some time on the internet (at Rs500/hour). Sara seems to be getting a cold so we downed some garlic soup...and to make it interesting we ordered fried potato and cheese momos and dunked these into the soup as a dipping sauce...and it was really good.

Namche certainly has changed with all the construction to build huge lodges for the groups that now make up the majority of trekkers. Below is a picture from my first visit and one from now. The difference is quite remarkable. At the lower levels there is not much space left that can be built on.