Heading out at around 9am, we were determined to make it to Phakding to get some of their amazing apple pie. Apples picked same day, pie cooked to order! These apple pies were incredible on our taste buds which had only had Dal Baht and momos for the past week and a half. These apple pies were the only thing on my mind all day as we trekked another long nine hour day. We were ver fortunate to have perfect weather again today. It made for some great downhill trekking. It feels great to descend and be able to suck in all of this oxygen. It was like having a rush the whole way down today; full of energy and excitement to make it to Phakding.
On our way down, with all of this energy, we ended up racing some local porter boys that had just dropped off their load in Namche and were descending back to Lukla as well. It was a ton of fun as we raced down the trail and took shortcuts down local goat trails that cut the distance in half as we split the zigzag of the normal trail. We were flying by all of new, slow tourists on the trail that were into their second day of trekking. Boy they have a long way to go. It felt great to have all of this energy again. We were so determined to make it to Phakding for the delicious apple pie that we ended up trekking thirty minutes into the night, which was actually pretty cool to trek underneath all of the stars above. So cool in fact that we have decided to go to bed early tonight so that we can wake up extra early and trek again under night fall, watch the sunrise and arrive in Lukla to catch an early flight back to Kathmandu. It’s crazy to think this will be my last night in the Himalayas. It’s been great though.
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