Tag: Marpha
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Nepal (Day 15)
14th November: Marpha (2,665m) – Lete (2,470m) This morning we learnt that three people have been killed in riots in Kathmandu. The elections, scheduled for tomorrow, were provoking unrest and apparently, if the communists did not get in, there was going to be a blood bath. The British Foreign Office were advising tourists not to…
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Nepal (Day 14)
13th November: Muktinath (3,762m) – Marpha (2,665m) ‘How much rakshi did you get through last night?’ Narayan stood there grinning and trying, unsuccessfully, to look innocent as I paid the bill for our night’s board and accommodation. Not surprisingly, he admitted to feeling a bit naramro (unwell). Long after we three had retired, our guide/porter…