Bhutan
Shingkarap

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    • Day 5

      tigresse's nest

      May 1, 2019 in Bhutan ⋅ 🌬 18 °C

      So. Les jeux sont fait. It seems a bit like that because I have now all the stuff for the next 10 days and what will be missing, is missing. Until now, I am very fine. I am in my tent, my 3l-Platypus-Drinking bottle is keeping my feet warm for my first night in the tent for that trek. We will be woken up at 6:30 for a wake up tea and then some hot water for cleaning, breakfast at 7 and up we go at 8. We have approximately 21km to go tomorrow upt to 3600m. But first about today. It was again a marvelous day. We left Paro in direction to the tigers nest, the most known building from this country. And the most touristy. Still, there are not that many people but it seems almost crowded. There is a part first to go up to a cafeteria and then further to the Monastery. Tourist can take a horse for the first part. Amd they do. Mostly Asian coming from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Some are dressed for photo shooting with Gucci-Shoes. No kidding. Even though they do one half on the horse back, the other is on foot for them, too. And it is steep, actually very steep and hot. I was impressed how they managed. Not fast but they managed. Lilian and me were quite fast so we arrived before the tourist ‘mass’ up there, visited the Monastery. It is a beautiful one. Rebuilt after a devastating fire in 1998 it thrones abov the cliffs. Impressive. We went to heave, luckily not literally, climbing up to another temple with a gorgeous view on the nest. And being up there for ourselves was just adding up. After lunch in the middle station we walked down all the way with still some going up. Tenzing told us that sometimes he has to carry down women because it is too steep. Lately he had guests from Singapore that weren’t used to this kind of thing, they started at 8:30 and were back only at 17:30. We were a bit quicker and soon on the way to here (I have to look up the name) were we had four hours of blissfully nothing to do. We spent first some time outside in front of our already put up tents, drank some tea enjoying some speks of sun, mixed with some shy rain drops. As they got more insistent, we went into the tent. I again played Solitaire and listened to Podcast, being warm and confy and dry. What do I want more. Around 7 was diner and now it is 21:25 and i am looking forward for tomorrow! What a lucky girl I am!
      Oh btw, the tiger from the tiger’s nest is a female. but tigresse’s nest was too complicated for name.
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