Helambu Trek-December , 2010

Five days Helambu trek was absolutely wonderful. First time I did this trek was on my own without any foreign clients. I started the trek from Sundarijal which was about an hour bus ride from Kathmandu. The whole area is scenic and has beautiful landscape, but the trail is comparatively lot more up and down. Because of that, my legs were bit sore end of the trip. I went through many beautiful villages, Fir and Rhododendron forest. After Tharepati, villages are much more colorful and well set. People are very friendly and nice. Each village has huge monastery, decorated by colorful pray flags, Stupa and Maniwall. Second last day I passed more then dozen of new and old stupas, big statue of Guru rimpuche on top the hill near Sermathang and two graves sight of Tamang and Sherpa people. Both sights are quite interesting. I ever saw this big brave sight in mountain area. In one place more then hundreds of monuments inside the pine forest and many of them are invisible. The views along the trial were quite amazing, cultivated steep land with beautiful terraces, different types of villages, forest and of course Mountains. Any way last day bus ride from Melamchi Bazzar to KTM was even more interesting. It was small bus with about 50 sit. But there were about 200 people including inside and on top, every 10 or 15 minutes bus stopped and some people get down and some get on. It was quite a experience and a long journey on a local bus after several years.