Kathmandu & Everest Base Camp Trek - Part 1

After 25hrs hellish overland travel - Kathmandu

 Monkey Temple - Kathmandu

 Durbar Square

 Lukla airport (2840m) - If this makes you nervous, you don't want to see the others..

 Day 1, with over 100kms to go..

Local Sherpa lady

Day 2 - Namche Bazaar - 3440m

Buddhist prayer wheels

Day 4 - After a day acclimatising, an early start to head uphill again

First view of Everest (8848m) & Lhotse (8516m). 4 more days hiking to get there

Arriving in Dingboche (4410m)

The two peaks of Amadablam - 6814m

Our Sherpa host in Dingboche

Thokla Pass, Buddhist tombstones & memorial site

One of many..

Melting glacier waters

Varanasi & 'The Ganga'

    Sunset & swimming lessons on the Ganges

    Assi 'burning' ghat

                          Hindu evening ceremony

    Before a sunrise paddle

                              Sadhu, on an M & M's mat..

    Must be whites next load..

    Evening Hindu ceremony on the Ganges




Next stop; Kathmandu after 25hrs hellish overland travel!