- Tengboche Monastery, Day11
(This Tengboche Monastery or Dawa Choling Gompa to the Sherpas here is a gem, standing amidst tall mountains, including the huge Thamserku and Ama Dablam, both nearly 7000m high. It was built in 1916, thus it is 100 years old this year. We didn't get to go inside the first time we reached Tengboche on Day4 because we were simply too tired after the day's gruelling trek from Namche, but this time on Day11, we decided to visit its interior and say our prayers. It's a beautiful temple inside, richly captured in the movie, 'Everest'. We walked in with news that our helicopter rescue could not proceed due to bad weather in Lukla, but 30minutes after our prayers, we were told that the chopper was on the way - divine intervention, indeed!)
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