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Up at 5am, couldn't sleep, breakfast at 7:30, away at 8am. This is going to be a tough day, 6-7 hour trek with an 800m rise, Pemba shows with hiking boots, hiking clothes so must be hard today. We walked for three and a half hours which was not too bad before lunch and crossed 5 swing bridges, we met some other groups, Koreans, Pole and a group of Aussies, we stopped for lunch at Jorsalle and I had fried noodles and eggs. Pemba warned us this is tough part, and to be prepared, well tough was an understatement, I could think of other words but for our younger readers I will refrain myself but one of the guys said the C word !! The path was like walking up the steepest parts of Bridle Path for three hours, we took regular stops but when you stopped you started to get cold when we were walking into the clouds. After having lunch, I was too full and didn't seem to have the energy to climb the hill. We are passed by donkeys carrying bottled gas and herds of yaks and Sherpas carring supply's (food, beer, pots, etc).
We passed one Sherpa who was carrying about 10 sheets of timber and another load on top of the timber, one of our guides estimated it was about 100kg !!
We arrived just after 3pm, the town is 3340m high and the biggest Sherpa town in the Himalayas, it is very much a market town. After we got our rooms we went for a walk round town. That night after dinner, Ryal & I went to the Irish bar with Rylles for a Guinness and watched some of the Italy v Romania game.
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