Breathing easy at 4000m and off to the Tengbouche Monastery

We set off at 8 am after great sleeps at Pheriche. Being 800m lower makes a huge difference to your breathing.

Back into conifer, juniper, pine and rhododendron forest. More lovely views of Ama Dablam and the villages along the Khumbu.

It is so much busier in the Khumbu than the Dudh Kosi valley. Morning tea in Pangboche and lunch in Deboche.

At 3 pm we visited the monastery for there afternoon prayer service. The inside of the monastery is ornately decorated in paintings of buddha and a massive statue of the bhudda Guru Rimpoche sits peacefully at the front of the prayer room. Monks recited their mantra for about 10 minutes and after a circuit of the room and a donation we walked past heaps of prayer wheels around the monastery.

It has been a restful day walking beneath the ever present ice capped mountains, through numerous small villages and groves of flowering rhododendron forest.

Tomorrow we head back to Namche Bazaar via Khunde and Khumjung.