Yolo! I am back today with another post for you today about our fantastic rest day on the Holiday Namche hotel on the way to the Everest Base camp. As I just said, today was a fun rest day where we toured the village and had a lot of free time to ourselves. It was like our rest day in Annapurna but with more free time to ourselves. Anyways, I started off my wonderful day by waking up at 8:30 am😆👊!!! After getting dressed and brushed our teeth, we ate a delicious potato dish and embarked on our short, two hour tour of the city. The majority of this hike was walking uphill on EXTREMELY LARGE STAIRS… my arch enemy! It was very tiring but after climbing for a while, we reached a large, pink statue of the first person to summit Everest. It was pretty cool actually and the pinkness of the statue looked really cool. There was also an interesting memorial next to it that had a rock from the highest point on Earth(Everest) and a salt crystal from the lowest point on Earth(the Dead Sea), which I found very interesting. I thought it was a cool memorial that showed the friendship between Israel and Nepal. Afterword, we saw the gear that the first people used up Everest and it was really sad how bad their resources were at the time. We then hiked back to the hotel and rested there for a few hours. Ganesh arrived sometime later and took us out to see a documentary about an avalanche on Everest that happened in 2014 and caused the Shurpas to rebel against the government. It was very interesting and shurpas are the people who set everything up like the camps and hotels. They rebelled because many of them died in the avalanche and the government did nothing about it. After the film, we rested a bit longer and then took a nice hot shower. We had dinner after that and then went to sleep happy.
Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two people to climb Everest successfully, forever glorified in pink.
Ganesh standing next to the cool memorial.
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