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Travel Memories: Roaming Namche Bazaar, Nepal

Peter West Carey Comments Off on Travel Memories: Roaming Namche Bazaar, Nepal Nepal

Namche Bazaar is the hub of Everest Expeditions and trekking adventures alike. It sits on trade route that have existed for centuries to bring Himalayan salt down from Tibet and produce and woolen crafts north. Perched in a bowl along a hillside, there are very few flat places but that means almost every room in… Read More

Travel Memories: Lawudo Gompa

Peter West Carey Comments Off on Travel Memories: Lawudo Gompa Travel Memories

High in the Himalayas, in a place very few trekkers ever visit, you can find the Lawudo Gompa above Mende. The Sherpa structures are built around the cave Guru Lama Zopa Rinpoche carved out under a giant boulder for his decades of meditation. The space is now turned into a shrine to the Guru, with the accompanying… Read More