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is it still a creative block if you are stuck when writing a blog entry?

anyway, since it wasn't a very eventful day, i'll write about something else today... my trip to everest base camp earlier this year! well, i didn't really get to everest base camp as i had planned to, due to time constraints. the group i was with was verrrry slow and so we only got to about 4000m (~13100ft). nevertheless it was a lot of fun.. here are a few low res photos from the trip..

i found this guy dozing off in the museum near namche bazaar, the central 'town' in the area. one of the tourists there was tellin me the equipment was "real stuff from the early mountaineers"... but did they really use wooden sticks to climb everest..?

i took the photo on the right simply because i could! it's an army base which is located right beside the museum. the army people were tellin me I wasn't allowed to take any photo of their army base or my cam would be confiscated... so i went outside the fence and took a pic and headed down the mountain .. not a very wise thing to do though..

if you are wondering, i took this photo myself. nice isn't it? but the view there is so good, it'd be a miracle to ruin a shot!! ;) this was on the way to the "Everest View Hotel", which at 13000 ft, is the highest 5-star hotel in the world.


and this one on the right shows a view of another mountain from the hotel itself. 2 bonus points for spotting a fly in the photo.. actually you can also see mt Everest itself from the hotel, but since it was midday the view was a little hazy.

and this here to the left, is the skull of a yeti... at least tht's what i was told it was. and a monk told me that since tourists kept snippin off some hair from the skull, they decided to put the skull in a glass case. one of the guys in our group was skeptical about the authenticity of the skull.. he was like, "they did have a yeti skull here but long back it went for a world tour and never returned.. where did this one come from?"

and this is namche bazaar, the central 'town' in the area. boasts of everything from cybercafes, bakeries(french/german) to discotheques. (though i didn't see any discos around). very lively place... and equally expensive.this here is a suspension bridge.. and the thread like thing you see flying towards the left from the bridge is a long chain of numerous white scarves... the last one is mine! the wind was blowin really hard, making it difficult to pull the chain of scarves in to tie my scarf there... but no job is too difficult for me. thankfully this was the bridge where the wind was less harsh.. on the other one, you almost felt like it would knock you off your feet!

that's all for today then... take care.