The gompa , an important center of Sherpa Buddhist learning, has been splendidly rebuilt. While lodge visitors may be standing in lines, scratching bedbugs, and laying awake at night listening to loud chaang-drinking fellow travelers, you sleep gently in your clean, quiet tent. Hot breakfast with steaming tea greets you each cold morning. Gradual but persistent uphill walking through yak pastures above and fields of ripening barley below. Devoche Nunnery 's gate can also be seen along the trail, and donations can be made if you are inspired.
Nights can be very cold up here.
Begin to see many chorten , ritual stone-piles representing travelers' prayers to the gods for a safe mountain crossing. Lodge at Lobuje. Walking day about 5 strenuous hours. Nights can be very, very cold up here. Today's plan depends entirely on the trekkers' comfort.