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Last but not least, these are the pictures from Heleens camera - the tiny sexy Canon thing, not my bulky Sony. Some of them were taken because the Canon was most handy, others because the Sony's memory cards were full, and still others, well, just because I usually don't take pictures of myself. (A lot of them are rather ''fun ...

Day 9: Everest Base Camp! The ''nec plus ultra'', both figuratively and literally, of our trekking was finally within reach: 4 hours from Gorak Shep to reach Everest Base Camp!   Garlic Delight  ''Garlic Man'' learning about different ways to disguise the taste of garlic - but not the smell, unfortunately for us ;-) ...

Day  5: Thyangboche - Dingboche After getting up and straight away getting a ''natural high'' from the view of Everest through the window, we got up to finally get into the ''real'' trekking at some decent elevation. First though, the day started with a nasty descent from Thyangboche down to the river... Fun ...

[Note: As we did the EBC trekking in the company of a bunch of Californians who don't speak anything but English 8-] (as far as we found out, at least) we'll try and make sure they can read this and the next few blog posts. Anything that is in Dutch is, of course, about them.By the way: on this and all other pages, if you want to see a full-screen ...

We zijn net veilig en wel terug van onze trekking naar Everest Basecamp en raad eens ... we hebben het gehaald: we hebben aan de voet van de hoogste berg ter wereld gestaan!  (Wie had dat een vijftal jaar geleden ooit gedacht bij Anders Reizen :-) Voor diegenen onder jullie die AR niet kennen: het is een ten zeerste aanbevolen ...

...kort samengevat is dat wat Varanasi voor ons inhield: het Holi Festival houdt massa's water annex verf in, en hoewel we het grotendeels hebben vermeden, zijn wat klein mannekes er toch in geslaagd onze kleren een bruinig tintje extra te geven... ...en dat tweede deel... tja... enig idee hoeveel koeien er hier in de ghats rondzwerven, en wat ...