Kids in baskets
Utten, Tshering Palden and Wongel
Pemba is off to work
Hand game with kids
Watching TV
Pemba and Tenzing's daughters, Tsering and Utten
Yanjee and daughter Chorden
It is our final hours in Namche. This morning was busy with a spectacular send off for Pemba. His helicopter company decided he had had enough vacation and they sent a helicopter to bring him back to work. Every kid in the village turned out for this event. The schools are closed for a two week holiday and this created quite a diversion for them. After clearing the field of cows and kids with kites the helicopter landed in a huge dust cloud. Ang Pemba the manager of the Khumbu Lodge was the first on the field with a thermos of the obligatory milk tea. After several more hugs and katas (scarves that ensure safe passage) Pemba left into the sky.
This afternoon we spent the day watching the world go by in front of the Lodge. We tried to guess the languages of the many trekkers walking by, ate a bar of chocolate, played cards with the kids, ate potato pancakes with our Sherpa family and generally tried to hold on to the memories of this magical place. I'm getting all teary eyed just thinking about tomorrow morning when this portion of our trip is over.
Our next adventure is a 7 day walk to Jiri. This was the traditional way to the Khumbu before the airport. It is a lot more populated, more diverse culturally and off the beaten path these days. We leave the land of the Sherpas and move on to where the majority of people are living. We don't know if there is any internet service but I have Pemba's cell phone number in case he is flying by next week and wants to stop and pick us up. If that works out we'll be even more amazed by this place.
Good bye and Namaste for now. We will post if we can. And thank you so much for commenting on our blog. It is so comforting to know that we are reaching our friends and family with this goofy media.
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2 comments:
Cool! The kids are so beautiful - their face just shine! I love the colors most of all...they are so primary and bright. Becky, you may know that Granny Bee broke her hip in a fall last week; just wanted to let you know she is healing and feeling much better. Uncle Kim is arriving from Hawaii today for the week and will make arrangements for her to be in a more comfortable place to continue her gettin better. She is so thrilled by your trip and just shakes her head in amazement at your pioneer spirit! Especially the trekking...she lit up when we spoke about it. She loves you very much and wanted me to pass it on.
It's like you are already back and showing us the pictures. I feel very connected to the trip with the play by play blog entries. Thank You for sharing the trip!
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