Nice Hot Shower – After Eight Days!

The following day, we started to descend heading for Pheriche at 4,240m. It was a six-hour long walk. Pheriche is in a valley. First part of the trail was generally a steep ascent and decent followed by relatively flat and easy walk interspersed with some rocks and big boulders. The journey seemed long and endless as we walked through the valley. It was very windy and freezing cold.

From Pheriche, we went on to Sanasa then to Namche Bazaar.

We had wanted to trek from Pheriche to Namche Bazaar the day before. But as it was getting late and some team members were getting too tired, we decided to put up a night in Sanasa and continued the journey to Namche Bazaar the following day.

We could not wait to get back to Namche Bazaar for we could then take a good hot shower. The last time we had a proper shower was also in Namche Bazaar but eight days earlier! Hot shower is difficult to come by on high mountains and we had to pay 150Rs (about RM 8.30) for it.

The last day of the journey was a ‘punishing’, gruelling 8-hour unrelenting trek back to Lukla from Namche Bazaar.

In all, we trekked for 13 days and a total of about 65 hours and traversed no less than 150km. The journey was tough no doubt and it was not entirely without problem (some of the team members experienced headache, exhaustion, cough, cold etc. which is not uncommon at high altitudes). But fortunately for us was that many of the team members have good sense of humour, positive thinking and good team spirit. It helped when the goings get tough.