Everest Region

We spent a month walking in this region. We got a bus to Jiri and walked for 10 days to get to the Khumbu valley. This was the most beautiful section, we were very early in the season and the route is so quiet that we had a great time at the few tea houses we found. Once we reached the Kumbu we walked up to Namche Bazaar and then on to Gokyo Lake. We stayed here for a week, wandering around, climbing Gokyo Ri a couple of times and then because of storms retreated to rejoin the route to Everest basecamp near Tengboche. After the emptiness and silence of Gokyo this was too much...too many people. We headed back to Lukla and flew back to Kathmandu.