Put in another massive effort today and travelled all the way to Thare. Possibly the hardest stage of our trip since the walk into Namchee. The weather was beautiful but there was so much ascending and descending (hard on the knees) which caused it to be quite a difficult trek.
We left Pangboche at about 8am and got into Thare just before 3:30pm. A solid 7.5 hours of trekking. Again our lodge owner was surprised to hear that we had come so far. The path we choose to travel to Gokyo is not often used by foreigners and as a result Thare only has one tea-house (the only building in the town).
The walk was beautiful, we travelled at a very high altitude most of the way and passed around 6-8 beautiful waterfalls, some ice caves, shepherd stations and also passed up above the snowline again. Passed by the big town of Phorse but didn't stop to check it out. Some of the buildings along the way were incredibly beautiful, stone walls and stone slate roofs, they really looked like something out of a fairytale.
We stopped at 2:30pm for lunch at Thore before continuing on for 30 minutes to Thare, where we got a room for 250/- per night. These two towns were marked incorrectly on our map which led to some confusion. The lodge in Thare has no power and there is only 3 rooms (separated by 5mm plywood sheets). Pillows are hessian bags stuffed with plastic bags and then covered with a pillow case and when I went to open the window the whole frame came out in my hands. Looks to be a cold one tonight, but at least we are indoors.
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