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| Stretched Valley of Tsum - Just above village of Chekampar |
Early
morning it was still freezing cold in Tsum Valley, lodge owner call us for tea
and he had already prepared breakfast for us. As expected it was bread with
some fired potato. He told he was out of stock for egg and dry meat. But he
called someone on another lodges and orders five eggs, within couple of minute’s
one small kid appear with egg. We decide to fried three of them and boil two,
our plan was to carry boiled with us so that just incase if we need to face
similar situation as pervious day it will save us. Apart from that we bought
some biscuits pack imported from Tibet, which is mainly used by Chinese Army. It
was full of energy stuff as just two pieces of biscuits guarantee energy for
couple of hours. We leave village of Chumling. It was almost flat for first
hour, then we found ourselves of settlement of Gho from where trail get
separated toward Chekampar and Gumba Lundang. Slowly trail start bending
steeply up toward Chekampar. Although there are no settlement in between Gho
and Chekampar it was still ok because distance is not so far. Chekampar is
another big settlement on Tsum and this is borderline of Upper and Lower Tsum
Valley. Just before the police checkpoint on Chekampar we stop for lunch. It
was on left side of trail and there is small telephone booth operated by same
lodge owner on right of trail. Dinning room of lodge is very nice; it was big
and carved with wooden stuffs. There was menu she can offer us most of things. Paul
he decides to have some fried noodles with veg where as I just look for option
of Dal Bhat. Suddenly there appear a middle age man who also stops for lunch
and he was single. Lodge owner lets us know that her brother is running another
teahouses on Burzi near Lama Gaon, further she told us to ask anyone with name
“Burzi ko Dawa ko hotel kun ho?” (Which is the hotel of Dawa in Burzi). We
leave from there and little ahead we reach such an amazing viewpoint from where
wide valley is stretched on northeast border by hill ridge on both side. This
now looks like Tsum Valley as there is big valley trail passes through the
middle of field. We sat down and look a map, we decide to go to Rachen Gompa
instead of Lama Gaon cause according to map they are just separated by river in
between. However if it is like Rupchet and Chumling, i.e. Separated by river
but uphill is around two hour more; we will plan to go Burzi.
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| Thats me on Rachen Gompa Monastery Premises on my 5th Day during Manaslu Tsum Valley Trek |
Suddenly
we found man who had stop on teahouse at Chekampar for lunch coming behind us. He
was walking so fast he catches us in a while and start talking with us. We
share our plan with him of going to Rachen Gompa instead of Burzi. He told us
that foreigner are not allowed to stay overnight in Gompa, he offer us to go in
his home for overnight which was fifteen minutes walking distance from Gompa. We
were agreed to go to his home, as it was also easy for me to follow local
instead of worrying about finding a right trail. On the way we pass from Rachen
Gompa. His house was small with big courtyard and his wife and two sons were on
house. Throughout the stay he offer us a teabag and provide big thermos of hot
water. Apart from that he offered us some dry food made from bread something
like Tibetan Food. After a while Paul and me we went to Rachen Gompa. It was a
big Gompa with large courtyard and places under shadow were covered by mass of
snow. It was under renovation so main room was kind of close. We return back to
our home stay and again grab a cup of tea. It was delicious dal bhat time; kids
were busy checking the bag of father who had returned from Arughat. It was very
hard to believe to have such nice and clean accommodation as local owner take
some pillow rapped on plastic, it was dazzling white color so were the bed
sheet it was very hard to have such cozy nice accommodation on Tsum. Food was delicious;
accommodation was out of imagination and warm hospitality of lodge owner and
his family was unmatched to any of the place and we just considered ourselves
lucky. To be honest we found it embarrassing to use such neat and clean white blanket
provided on home stay so we just took our sleeping bag out and kept blanket
aside.
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