Saturday, September 8, 2018

Day 5: Journey to Everest reaching Rongbuk Monastery & Everest camping site

It was a quiet day at Shigatze as we have breakfast at the hotel and start our journey around 9am towards Qomolangma national park where Everest and the top mountain can be view there. The whole day journey is flat as there are many dry land area similar like desert.

After lunch then we enter the entrance of Qomolangma national park before reaching the hill peak about an hour. From the peak we able to view the top 5 peak of the world but there are some cloud and we manage to view 2 mountains. Even 2 mountains and it was a beautiful scenery at the peak hill.












After the beautiful scenery then we start our remaining journey about an hour plus to reach the Everest camping site. Before reaching the camping site then we slowly drive towards the valley and slowly the shy magnificent grand Mount Everest appear without any cloud blocking and it was stunning. We took some photos there before proceed to the camping site.

















Once we reach the camping site passing by Rongbuk Monastery. Then we quickly put all out bags at the site and rush to the viewpoint of Everest for sunset. It was a worth trip of our Tibet journey and we stay there for an hour to witness Everest sunset with different colours and phase of Everest. We are simply out of words looking at the grand Everest.













We even climb up to a nunnery monastery near the viewpoint to have a glimpse of Everest sunset and also experience the nun prayer at the little monastery. It is a different experience to witness the sunset and Everest.


















After the view and almost towards dark fall and we slowly walk back to the campsite and have a rest. There were no restaurants or any meal place. The junk food and instand noodle is sell at the campsite but with a higher mark up price. I did not have a proper dinner as I took some biscuit and then have a rest cause I seriously not feeling well as I slowly caught altitude sickness towards the night. It was a serious sickness even worst then motion sickness as I am having dizziness and feel like vomiting but I sleep through the night and manage to recover a bit in the morning.

-Next Day-

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