Re: More on teahouse trekking
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Re: More on teahouse trekking
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In Reply to: Re: More on teahouse trekking posted by kolobar on January 24, 2007 at 12:52:43:
: Regarding Darcha - Padum I am refering to Darcha - Kargyak section not Tsarap valley.
Last time I was there it was a lodge at Zanskar Sumdo.
: your claim that it is practically the same thing really surprises me.
I am not claiming it is the same thing. As long as you stay on the main trail of the Nepalese tea house routes, i.e., Langtang, EBC, AC, or ABC, you will find that the tea houses have evolved into hotels. Though that applies virtually only to those particular routes, leave them just for a day, and you are into more traditional tea-house trekking, i.e., simple lodges that serve dinner and let you sleep in some room, often the same as where dinner is served.
: My point is: you can stay in parachute tent, shepperds hut, nomad tent, villagers house, igloo, in the cave or sleep outside under stars - and some people actually do and I myself did a lot of it - but that is NOT a nepali style teahouse trekking.
I would say that hiking around the Markha circuit, or between Padum and Darcha, the accommodation and food has a lot in common with the Nepalese bhattis I stayed in hiking west of Pokhara in 1968 or to Khumbu in 1972. I got food and shelter! People along the trails were set to cater to hikers, locals or foreigners. Leave Langtang, EBC, AC, or ABC, and you wind up in pretty much the same kind of lodges. You get food and shelter.
Surely, it is more primitive, far less comfortable, but on the other hand it is far more rewarding than hiking between lodges with “Swiss Rösti” on the menu. It is genuine teahousetrekking.
Per