L'Arte di Viaggiare - Art of Travel - Francis Galton
24 July Tarke Gyiang
Namaste Nepal En
Awake at 5 a.m. Outside all is dark and foggy.drink two cups of tea, eat two boiled potatoes and are off to the vegetable patch to dig up some more.you read in guide books that the core ingredient of the Sherpas' diet is the potato, you don't really realise just how literally true this is!duty done, we set off for Tarke Gyiang, a large village at 2,747 metres above sea level and the seat of a Buddhist temple and monastery.the way I learn more new things. Yesterday Laghkpa said that whenever we came across any 'chortens' we must leave them to our left. Today we come across little 'stupas' and we have to walk round them three times anticlockwise before going on our way.see yaks immersed 'up to their nostrils' in pools either side of our path. How I envy them!breaks for us; it is imperative to steam ahead non-stop!there is a break in the clouds, we get a glimpse of the peaks of Langtang Himal.reach Tarke Gyiang where we visit (at a charge) the Buddhist temple, drink some tea and pay the outrageous sum of 30 rupees for 3 chapatis which are so disgusting as to be uneatable.is now two o'clock in the afternoon and pouring with rain: we decide to go on to Malemchigaon.would like to get as far as the area of the Lakes: Gosainkund, Saraswatikund, Bharabkund.between Malemchigaon and Gopte we stop for the night at the home of a Tamang family.