Eighteen Days of Trekking!

Hello!  Namaste!  (Namaste is the best way of saying 'hello' in Nepal.  I'll definitely be saying 'Namaste next time I see Robin, Grace and Adam so I hope they remember how to say it.  I'm sure they will as they are very clever.)

I'm sorry you haven't heard from me for such a long time but I've been trekking.  I went walking every day for eighteen days!  That's the same as going walking instead of going to school for three whole weeks.

I was in a place called Dolpo in Nepal which only has a few people living in it.  (I reckon there are more people in Bournville School - where Adam, Robin and Grace are busy being clever every day - than in some villages in Dolpo.)  

There were no computers where I could log on to the internet when I was in Dolpo, so I didn't get any screen time.  Oh dear.  I don't think Adam, Robin and Grace would like to go eighteen days without screen time!

The scenery in Dolpo was amazing though so I didn't mind.

The photo at the top of the page shows me at the top of the 'Kang La' which was over 5,000 metres high.  (This is more than half the height of the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest.)  While I was in Dolpo I went over three passes that were more than 5,000m high and there were amazing views from all of them.

I also passed a beautiful lake called Phoksundo Lake.  The people who live in Dolpo hang multi-coloured flags in special places, including the shore of the lake.  The flags are red, green, yellow, white and blue, as you can see in my photograph.  People in Dolpo think the flags give them special protection to stop anything bad from happening.

I slept in a tent every night during my trek.  It's hard work carrying a tent and sleeping bag and food for eighteen days.  (I wonder what Adam, Robin and Grace eat in eighteen days?  I wonder if they could fit all of their food in a rucksack?!)  We thought this would be quite hard so we took nine donkeys with us to help carry everything.

The donkeys had quite big packs at first but the luggage got lighter and lighter.  This is because we ate lots of food every day so the donkeys did not have to carry it anymore!

There are no roads and no cars in Dolpo, so animals carry most of the luggage.  Here is a picture of some yaks carrying wood to build houses in a local village.  Yaks are a bit like giant woolly cows!

I had an amazing time in Dolpo and I'm looking forward to telling you more about it soon!