Getting the Show on the Road

Having arrived safely in Lukla, our long awaited trek could get underway. But we didn't rush right off: we had just flown into an altitude of 2,860m, which is well over 9,000 feet, so we needed to slow things down while we adjusted to the thin air. We also had to meet our excellent trekking crew and pack animals (more about them later).

We had a short walk through the town, followed by a very early (11:30 a.m. lunch). Despite the altitude, the sun was shining, so we could sit outside and bask in it's warmth as we ate.

Anyway, you know what people and bears look like eating, so lets move on to the stuff of interest and our first trek photo.


We started off by losing a couple of hundred metres of altitude and descending to the river, which we walked along for the rest of that day. We had to cross the river and it's tributaries lots of times, and these steel suspension bridges provided the means of doing so. They might look quite rigid, but believe us they were very bouncy (and that was with our negligible combined weight). As you can see, we waited for the heavy humans to clear the bridge first.

Everything we saw was new to us and completely fascinating. We had moved into Buddhist territory and loved seeing all the many aids to Buddhist worship.


Some of the prayer wheels such as these ones were very colourful and we enjoyed giving them a spin to gain blessings for our journey. We made sure to do everything clockwise of course. As you can see the native animals were friendly and on hand to give us some tips.

Our trek had got off to a great start and we knew we were really going to enjoy the next few days.

Lots of love George & Yorkie xxx