I stayed at 'Himali Home Stay' across the Sagarmatha Highway to see the sunrise on Everest
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A village called Pattale with 'Himali Home Stay' is called 'the best destination for Everest sightseeing' by the local news site The Kathmandu Post.
Pattale: The perfect destination for Everest sight-seeing
The location of 'Himali Home Stay' is around here. It is southeast of Kathmandu and takes just over eight hours by car.
◆ Sagarmatha Highway
This time, I stayed in the southern part of Janakpur the day before, so I decided to head north on a highway called 'Sagarmatha Highway'.
Katari town center. The road was paved with asphalt halfway through the town, but the road became unpaved halfway through. This is usually around 10am.
The route to Himali Home Stay looks like this. It says it will take about 4 hours and 30 minutes for 109km, but it actually took about 7 hours including breaks along the way.
Sagarmatha Highway is about 1.5 lanes wide. Since it is unpaved, we will choose a place with as little unevenness as possible.
There was a small shop around Shiva Temple, so I took a break.
Other tank trucks were also taking a break.
Fruits shared by the driver. Is it a raspberry? It was very juicy, with a hint of sourness and sweetness, and it soaked into my body, which had been damaged by bumpy roads.
The surrounding scenery is like this.
The location is here, facing south.
We will go further. You can see the winding road leading to the top of the mountain over there.
The front is almost 180 degree turn at the valley. There are no tunnels at all, just sticking to the surface of the mountain.
On the way there was the wreckage of a car that once fell off the road in an accident.
There are almost no guide rails.
I tried to take a picture of the actual driving situation. Basically, this vibration will continue forever.
After driving north for several hours, I came across a town called Ghurmi along the Sunkoshi River . From here, head west along the river and finally reach Kathmandu.
Ghurmi is around here.
I could see the construction of the road on the north bank of the river.
Cross the Sunkoshi River to the north on a large bridge.
Looking west from the bridge, it looks like this.
From here we continue to climb further north. In addition, when you leave the Sunkoshi River and start climbing, the road becomes a paved road and it feels quite comfortable to ride.
I'm going to overtake the cow walk.
Arrived at a slightly prosperous village called Manebhanjyang Bazaar.
Since we were moving without lunch, we had a peach meal.
It gets dark quite a bit, and the surroundings are going through a state like being wrapped in gas.
For some reason, a truck is parked in the mountains, and when I think about it, road construction is underway.
It seems that asphalt pavement for the width of the road was done at once.
Wait for the pavement to finish and pass over the freshly made asphalt.
It was past 18:00 when we arrived at 'Himali Home Stay' in Pattale village.
◆'Himali Home Stay'
Pattale village has a number of lodging facilities with a view of Everest. This 'Himali Home Stay' is one of such accommodations.
There are five huts like this.
Nepal's national flower, Laligras (Rhododendron), which was growing in front of the hut.
The direction I ran is like this.
The road continues further up the mountain. Originally, you should be able to see the mountains in the distance, but you can't see anything because it's cloudy.
We will stay here for the day and wait for the sunrise tomorrow morning.
It was quite high, so it was cold at night, and the stove was on in the cafeteria space.
The individual huts look like this.
The key to the door is a padlock.
entrance.
No shoes are allowed in the bedroom.
Looking back at the entrance side, it looks like this.
The room was a twin specification.
Blankets are provided in addition to comforters.
There is also an outlet on the wall.
It had an electric blanket. It was very cold at night, and it was so helpful that I might not have been able to endure it without this electric blanket.
A mysterious shelf in the room.
A mysterious device that was placed on the shelf. Capture unit...?
The toilet and shower are like this.
I didn't use the shower as it was really cold.
◆Sunrise
next morning. Around 5:00, it was still pitch black outside, and the silhouettes of the decorations hanging from the roof were faintly floating. The white dots are the lights of the houses on the opposite mountains.
It was about 6:30 and it was getting bright outside.
I can see the mountains that I couldn't see last night.
An object that was set up in the space in front of the inn. I thought that Everest would come just in this, but it seems not to be the case.
High towers and mountains. Everest is the peaked mountain with clouds on the left side of this photo.
The mountain range where the morning sun rises and gets brighter is like this.
I came to a place where I climbed a certain amount from the inn, but it was still not high enough, and the sunrise was hidden behind the mountains.
The sun is rising.
Even when the sun rose, there were few clouds, and I could clearly see the mountains in the distance.
The dog of the facility that was wandering around in the morning. After this, I returned from Pattale to Ghurmi on the same road, and from there I decided to return to Kathmandu along the Sunkoshi River.
On the way, when I was resting around
I'm going to go back to the road that sticks to the mountain surface.
Many parts of the road heading west from Ghurmi were relatively well paved, but in the valley part, rocks that had collapsed during the rainy season fell on the road, and there were places where it shook considerably. This is a plagued part of Nepal's entire roads, with improved roads having drainage channels under the curves.
Even under construction of a bridge.
In such places, go down to the river once and cross the place where there is little water. Perhaps because the cars were slowing down, there were shops selling snacks on the riverbeds and sandbanks.
We left Pattale in the morning and arrived back in Kathmandu in the evening.
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