{"id":944,"date":"2012-10-05T12:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T12:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2012-10-07T08:20:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T08:20:35","slug":"solu-khombu-trek-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Solu Khombu Trek – Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our walk from the Thuptenchholing Monastery to Singephuk was beautiful. \u00a0We made our way out of one type of terrain to find ourselves in a forest. \u00a0The mulched ground and the mossy trees lent itself to such a silence. \u00a0It was a beautiful trek. \u00a0On our way we stopped at a ‘cave’ where monks used to spend time in solitude. \u00a0So, this is something interesting we’ve learned about since visiting Nepal and many monasteries. \u00a0When I picture a monk living in solitude, it is usually in a sparse room alone, maybe only a book of Buddhism to keep him company. \u00a0But apparently what solitude means is that a few monks go to a place and lock themselves away from the rest of the world, but the monks can speak with each other. \u00a0It’s just different from what I pictured. \u00a0Anyhow, we went to look at a ‘cave’ that monks use for solitary thoughts. \u00a0I use the word cave loosely, because they had fashioned an overhang of rock with bricks and a window, and called it a cave. \u00a0Once again, we had pictured something else.<\/p>\n

\"Nepal<\/p>\n

We stopped by a monastery school to look around, and they invited us in for tea. \u00a0People talk about trekking and stopping in Tea Houses along the way. \u00a0Well, I don’t think I’ve seen a tea house, or stopped in one, but we have stopped in numerous monasteries where they offer us tea galore. \u00a0It’s a nice practice.<\/p>\n

We finally made it to Shengeephuk, and it was breathtaking. \u00a0A rounded out valley of massive proportions. \u00a0Spring fed streams twist and tangle all about the valley floor. \u00a0 Set up of the left side of the valley wall sits the cave where the well respected, and recently deceased, Rimpoche spent three years in meditation. \u00a0Seth and I went for a walk trying to find the main source of the spring, but we decided that it was too high up on the wall. \u00a0By the time we decided this we were a bit of a boggy walk back to camp. \u00a0We spent a good amount of time rock hopping so as to not step in mud or fall in the water.<\/p>\n

\"Nepal<\/p>\n

\"Nepal<\/p>\n

A little while later we went back up to the cave house with all of our guys to pay respect to the late lama. \u00a0It was a very nice experience to be ble to share that with them. \u00a0We had a bunch of katas (prayer shawls) that we gave to all of them, and Poorba, our sherpa guide shared some of his grain with us in order to make an offering that way. \u00a0We then hung our prayer flags. \u00a0It was very nice.<\/p>\n

\"Nepal<\/p>\n

\"Nepal<\/p>\n

That evening is when I began to feel unwell. \u00a0But, I was determined to shake it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our walk from the Thuptenchholing Monastery to Singephuk was beautiful. \u00a0We made our way out of one type of terrain to find ourselves in a forest. \u00a0The mulched ground and the mossy trees lent itself to such a silence. \u00a0It … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[202,247,230,220,246,228],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","tag-nepal-2","tag-shengeephuk","tag-singephuk","tag-solu-khumbu","tag-thuptenchholing-monastery","tag-thuptencholing-monastery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sethandberkley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}