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| Chorten on trail to Nile and Chule Village - Tsum Valley Trek Nepal |
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morning start with thermos of hot water and couple of teabags, owner had
already made this ready before we wake up. When we get up owner safely placed
back those pillow and blankets on his big wardrobe. Kitchen was just next to
our room; we can see it, as it is wide open house. Houses just look tiny and
dirty for outside but inside it is very beautiful carved with wooden planks,
Tibetan worship style in front of picture of Holy Dalai Lama and other copper
and bronze utensil beautifully placed. It was bread and fried egg for breakfast.
After breakfast we pack our backpack and get ready to leave toward Mu –
Monastery. Farewell from home stay was different, owner placed a holy white
scarf around our neck and waves his hand, and entire family was waving a hand
and asking to return back via same trail on the way down. It was very easy
trail all the way up to Mu – Monastery as trail is entirely flat and passes
through middle of fallow field almost covered by hard snow. There was one very
famous Chorten on the middle of field as seen in picture below and it looks
really beautiful out there on middle of no where. Little ahead we found settlement
of Nile and Chule that is only separated by small that flows between the middle
other it is like one minute walk from one village to another village. It was
too early for lunch so we decide to continue to Mu – Monastery, as we can see
monastery building from village. Trail first passes through bank of river and
start slowly turning uphill toward ridge of Mu. Since it is a off season time there
was no any other single trekkers out there, it was so confusing to find out the
trail toward Mu – Monastery. We keep walking ahead without hiking main trail up
to front of Monastery and reach backyard of Monastery. There is gentle smooth
uphill field that leads to monastery but was all covered by snow. There is also
one small helipad out there. We try to hike up through snow ridge but it was
not possible cause after one-minute hike up snow level also reach on our hip. We
saw one lama digging up the snow with shovel and wait for almost half hour for
him to make the trail but it seems practically impossible to be patient
waiting. We saw one small lama waving his hand and point to trek little bit
back and suggest to hike up. We climb like a monkey in between front and back
end of Mu – Monastery’s main trail. We jump off small stonewall and enter
premises of monastery. It was very quite suddenly same lama waving his hand
appears and scold us why don’t you came from the front entrance I was waving my
hand. We apologize and I let him know that I was there for first time. Another
old lama digging a snow with shovel appears and talks with small lama on
Tibetan language. They told us rests of monk are on vacation there were only two
of them. The old lama shows our accommodation it was on his twin room separated
by curtain in the middle accompanied by small kitchen. We let him know that we
don’t have lunch and he start preparing Dal Bhat. He brought some potato and asks
me to peel those potatoes. Suddenly he disappears and I need to fry those
potatoes he came back and told me “Oho you cook it – good job, enjoy your meal”.
It was way to delicious caused it was cooked by me
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| Frank (Paul) hiking up to mu - monastery following my trail, he was almost crawling |
Frank
he start reading some novels on his kindle book, I had nothing to do I was just
wondering around monastery. In evening old lama call us to join him for prayers
and he open major entrance of Gompa. He let us wear red dress of Lama and allow
us to take picture inside monastery. After dinner I cooked my dry mushroom
powder soup and give a bowl to lama too. It was very good supper and we went
for sleep. When you wake up old monk was already baking some bread when he saw
me he point out to piles of potato and knife to peel it again and want me to
fry those for breakfast along with bread and tea. After breakfast we hike up to
Dupchet Hill on the trail toward Tibet and start descending down all the way
back toward Chekampar. We stop on Nile for lunch and decide to follow new trail
toward Chekampar, slight different trail that merge with big Chorten on middle
of field before relocating back to Chekampar. We pass via same home stay village
and wave them hand of bye-bye. We pass through Rachen Gompa and descend little
bit below to Chekampar. We stay overnight on same hotel where we had lunch
before on the way up. We make a phone call in Thamel and let our friends know that
we are safe in Tsum. There is good electricity on Tsum that is produce on local
scale. We plan to hike up to Gumba Lundang tomorrow, consult with local owner
about the trail and time duration as well as accommodation, and see my next Day
07 itinerary for trip to Gumba Lundang.
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| Monastery of Gumba Lundang - See my Day 07 Trail to know more about Gumba Lundang. Mu - monastery was also similar to this one so I post it here. |
We didn't hike toward Aani Gompa from Mu - Monastery. People say it is also very good one small monastery with two female monk. You can see it from Mu - Monastery on southwest ridge, pay a short visit there Aani (Female Monk) will be happy to see you there.
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