50 today!Well, not feeling well at all, and it can't all be down to turning 50. Had the sweats all night, so did not sleep well. Still we did get a lovely apple pancake for breakfast and then it was off to try and make Junbesi in my weakened condition. Luckily Sara was in fine form today, and she offered to take my pack, giving me her lighter one instead. She also spent the whole day looking after me.
This section of the trail is one of my favourite parts - pine and rhododendron forests, relatively flat trails with no rocks, great scenery, and comfortable weather (sunny and not too hot). Walked down from Ringmu, crossed the river then climbed back up to get our final view of Everest. Then the trail is pretty flat until just before Junbesi, where it drops down quite steeply. Along the way you also get a nice view of the climb to come up to the Lamjura pass again - the Lamjura pass is the low point of the range in the middle of the photo at the left.
Finally we got to Junbesi and our favourite Sherpa Guide Guest House. We found the owners not so busily drying apples and pounding corn (to make corn flour for sherpa stew). We asked about apple pie and the lady said she had not made any as the volume of trekkers was down now. We asked "what about if we bought a whole pie?" - and she said give her and hour or so and we would have one, and so we did - a great afternoon coffee time snack, plus some left over for dessert after dinner (a delicious tomato and egg spring roll) too!
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