Day 12: Namche fun times and heading down

We had a lovely lesuirely lie in this morning in namche, getting up around 10 and heading to the 'Everest bakery' for real coffee and wifi. We did a bit of shopping round namche then had lunch at our tea house before heading off for a down hill walking day back towards lukla.

We were all feeling pretty rough today. After the elation of base camp we are now all a bit over the freezing cold and really want a shower and clean clothes.

We headed out of namche for an hour of downhill walking. The scenery was stunning with pine trees, eagles and the sound of the river in the background. It even started to snow.

Down hill was great but felt much tougher on our muscles and joints. About half way down I was feeling pretty dizzy and starting to get vertigo, probably from exhaustion of the previous 10 days or so.

We continued down passed herds of yaks and mules and finally came to the double rope bridge ( as seen in the Everest film). We had 4 rope bridges over the river over the next few hours before arriving at our lodge for the night.

We arrived around 3 in time for the fire being lit. Changed clothes (attempted to find something clean) and settled in for an early dinner of more momos.

It's crazy to think we only have one more day of trekking. We've walked over 150 km in the last ten days for on average 7 hours a day. We've survived on limited sleep with most nights below minus 20. All we've eaten is potatoes, rice and noodles. Oh and the occasional egg.

Tomorrow, just 5 hours of hiking lie between us and lukla where we await with baited breath to find out if our flight is running on Tuesday morning to take us back to Kathmandu. Land of the hot shower.