The second and last day of retracing my steps down from MBC; a day of STEPS.
Map of MBC to Chomrong
It’s uphill out of Bamboo.
Steps heading up and south from Bamboo
Rhododendron (stopping to take a picture gives me an excuse to stop)
I forgot to take my sunrise picture, so here’s one at about 8:45a.
Machhapuchhare is back to looking like a fishtail
Now it was time to start down.
A short stretch of nice and easy downhill
They're like a magnet, always drawing your attention
We stopped at Hilltop after 2+ hours of walking for tea.
Hen-and-chicks
Cabbage patch
From Hilltop to the Sherpa Lodge at Sinuwa was 45 minutes, mostly on steps. You can see Chomrong strung out along the opposite hillside. Remember the Kalpana, my destination, is near the top of the escarpment.
My porter starting down from Hilltop towards Sinuwa
Sherpa Guesthouse at Sinuwa
The Sherpa's store
We were a little early for lunch, so I ordered pizza because it would take a while. That gave me lots of time to investigate my surroundings, a luxury I usually didn’t have.
Notice the shape of the saw this carpenter is using
Every day is laundry day for these guest houses.
Step 1: at the "well"
Step 2: Scrub and rinse
Step 3: Early in the day there's sun & wind for drying
Meanwhile, there’s the garden to tend.
Here are those "tomatoes" again
Those bright colored buckets are used for everything
Another species of Sempervivum
A butterfly
These are the steps leading down from Sinuwa.
Steps down from Sinuwa to the Chomro Khola
Throughout the trek every once in a while there was a little sign with some eco-awareness saying.
Nature is fragile
Bridge over the Chomro Khola
Water buffalo- The steps up to Chomrong went among the fields.
A haystack
A garden
- See the hoses in the above photo? As I’ve said before, they’re used to move water from the pipeline to the fields and the houses.
Water pipeline coming down from the top of the mountain
Old and new technology: Water pipes and satellite dish
The steps:
I'm heading up
But these kids were coming down from school
Will they ever end?
A woman working on her rice- We arrived at the Kalpana early enough for me to wash my hair and a few clothes. About 5 o’clock it got all black again and there was another storm. So much for drying clothes! A group of langurs arrived in the trees just below the guesthouse.
