not a great deal done today. We went to a sherpa museum and which pictured all the sherpas who had summited the great mountains of the world. It was quite interesting, we also went to the national park museum which was pretty much the same as one that you would see in Australia except with pictures of different animals and much more impressive mountain ranges. We also went for a wander around the markets which are in Namche as it is the major area for trading in...

we actually went to kumjung today but for some reason this is not registering on this silly site. From this town you get a great view of the mountains but unfortunately up here in the mountains it is always cloudy in the afternoons and today was no exception, fingers crossed for tomorrow. We went for a walk to a monestary today, and this is no ordinary monestary, they have, in their posession... wait for it... a real live Yeti scalp - that's proof that they are...

Just letting everyone know that we weren't squished in the earthquake last night that hit Kathmandu and India. It was a little scary where we were in the town of Phakding as the whole dining room started to shake but we all got out unscathed!! we had a long day today up to Namche bazarre. On the way there was alot of evidence of the earthquake about but nothing too major. we will spent a whole day here exploring and aclimitising to the high altitude (we're at 35...