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Reisavontuur: Steaming up to Jiri
| Avonturier(s): | Booz |
| Continent: | Azie |
| Land: | Nepal |
| Aanvang: | 12 Mei 2003 |
| Einde: | 15 Mei 2003 |
 s I told in the last short message, I
found some people who arranged a cheap ride to Jiri. From there they
wanted to walk to Namche Bazaar and then to Everest Basecamp and
Kalapattar. On our way they told me about their tight timeschedule,
they planned to fligh out of Lukla on the 29th of May. It would become
a fast trek into Namche of 6 days, they presumed. As always I was fine
with that. One of the English already did the itenary 7 years ago and
said it was possible to reach Namche in 6 days, the other one had a bad
dhiarea, and both of them are called Paul, just to make things easy.
Of
course the luxurious cheap ride with the Toyota Corolla ended 35 km
before Jiri because the driver forgot to refill its engines radiator
and since it had been 38Celsius whole day the only thing the engine was
able to produce was steam. Luckily the driver didn't know anything
about car engines otherwise it wouldn't be an adventurious start pf our
trek (He did know a lot about potatoes and rice though)
After a few
hours and loads of waterbottles we limped in the little vilaage of Jiri
at 16.00, we walked a little around the village and went to bed early
at 19.00 to make sure we would be fit the next day to walk from Jiri to
Bhandhar, a 10 hour walk with a 2800mtr high pass in between the going
ups and going downs.
Next day we started walking at 7.00 and by the
time we arrived the little village of Khasrubaz (3 wooden huts on a
steep trail) one of the Paul's was exhausted by his 4 days long
dhiarhea, and couldn't go on anymore. We decided to stick together and
walk something more the next day and stayed with a very nice and warm
Sherpa family. Everywhere you come you see those families, and
everywhere the husbands are either working in Kathmandu for a trekking
company or porting loads from Jiri to Namche. So in the evening we
ended up with mum, the grandad and 2 little kids around the fireplace
in their wooden hut. Next morning we left at 6.00 to head for the
little vilaage of Kinja. The walk was beautifull but extremely heavy. I
found out my Backpack was way to heavy to carry around, and the Pauls
kept oin making fun about the stuff I brought in. Medicins,
campinggfear, climbing gear, food and drinks whne they asked me if I
coaccendentilly had something the I did have it. Very funny, but I now
started paying the bill for my 20 KG backpack. My cold got up again and
when we reached Kinja (1630mtr) I was totally exhausted. After this
long and hot (40Celsius) day I took a cold clacier shower and in the
evening during a big rain I wasn't really looking forward to the next
day. A steep climb up to the LamjuraLa of 2000 mtrs and then a descent
to Junbesi of 1300 mtrs. I went to bed at 18.00.
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