Here are some of our trekking experiences from the second week. Some of us started breakfast with Tibetan bread with omelet in the middle-very delicious and this is a good way to start the hike. Then we stayed at this one hotel which is known for their momo’s-pretty much bread stuffed with; vegetable, potatoes, egg, and mixed, what ever you choose. Since after this experience having this momo, I got a momo and chowmein for supper a lot, very good combination.
One day we hiked up to this place called Kyanjin Gompa along the Langtang trail. We had lunch up there; it was fun to watch them prepare food on top of a stove. Then it started to snow and we walked back to the hotel and threw snowballs at each other along the way. Then we sat around the fire to warm up and watched the snowfall out the window and experienced a thunderstorm while snowing. This was when I had my first snickers momo-Amazing.
I experienced how they kill a chicken, defeather it, butcher it, and then cook here Npali style. This was my first time seeing this, now I know how to do that. One time while lunch was being made Austin and I climbed a waterfall and cooled off-this was lots of fun and very cold. This same day we got to the town and waited for a bus to take us to another village. We three guys sat on the top of the bus-awesome view and you had to hold on so you don’t fall off the bus.
When we arrived to one village we went to a Wednesday night meeting-this was fun to be a part of worship together, and the message was from Romans 12:1-2, then had tea and popcorn as a snack.
Then as we hiked, we pr-yed for some people, and later that night we met someone from another country and had a great conversation on religion. It was good to explain why I believe what I do to someone else. That night the village welcomed us in their greeting-this was fun, they put a white scarf on us and then danced in a circle. We joined in and had fun trying to learn the dance. These people are so nice to new people, I want to be like them and accept all people.
There are so many prayer temples built along the trails-they usually have water running through them to turn a wooden turbine-very simple and all they would have to do is make it so it could generate electricity. Some of these are used to make flour in the villages. We had dalbhat a traditional Npl meal with omelet-great combination.
Then on Saturday, had noodle soup for breakfast very good, then walked to a meeting place and worshiped together. Then went back to someone’s house and had Tibetan tea with popcorn, I liked the popcorn much better then the tea, the tea had lots of salt and buttery taste.
The hightest elevation we were at was Kyanjin Gompa: 3730 meters, then walked down to 2465m over couple days, from here got a bus and went to another spot to hike two days there. Overall the week went well and I think we all could say we are happy to finish trekking. It was challenging physically and mentally, sometimes the body is tired and the spirit wants to keep moving.
I want to say thank you for all your pr-yers, while trekking-no one injured anything or got too sick not to walk-praise the Lord. Continue to pr-y for unity among the team, clear communication, God will continue to draw all of us closer to Him.
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