Day 2 - to Namche Bazaar 3440m

I woke up early, 6.30. We ate breakfast, packed and left for the trail.
Denise started having problems with her boots right on the trail. She had some hot spots yesterday but didn't treat them in time and ended up with open blisters. She had to take her boots off and hike the rest of the way in our guides flip flops. This was a long day of hiking also, climbing 800m in elevation.

After lunch, we had a very difficult uphill hike. It took about 2 hours. Along the way we met a Spanish TV show crew. The host guy looked like Hanzel from Zoolander, blond hair, tanned, rugged. That bacame his name for the rest of the trip.

Dale also received this horrible skin rash that we called leprosy, on a sleeper train in India. It looked like a spider bite that had spread all the way accross his neck. He had the name of some local plant that would clear it up, titi pati, so our guide made a paste and appllied it to his neck. It looked much better a few hours later.

We arrived in Namche Bazaar in good time. It was cold and foggy. We changed our clothes and wandered around the area. Denise and I were pretty tired, her more of a write-off than me. Hiking for 6 hours in sandals can do that to a person. I couldn't finish my dinner. The altitude and exhaustion were starting to affect me.