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Day 6: From Phakding to Toktok...
Well, yes. It was a nice and cool morning when the whole team of 25 of us in SgTrekker set off from Phakding. Of course our main luggage porters were again way ahead of us racing ahead, only leaving the other private porters and our Nepali guides with us.
Right early in the trek, just after Phakding, we heard bells jingling ringling just behind us and turned to find a convoy of mules squeezing their way through...
I am quite sure all of you ladies and gentlemen remembered that scene.
Here is that part of our trek from Phakding to Toktok, then to Bengkar and then to Monjo. You know, it is really tough to keep trek of where we were and what we were doing and which village that little house or that little girl belonged to because as we walked over the period of that few days, everything because a whole messed-up piece of blur.
Thus I can understand why so many trekkers found that having some GPS equipment would be at least a little bit more useful. For the convenience, I must say that Dinosour's EveryTrail for the iPhone would really be a very handy App. I ought to go and get it and try it out the next time round.
Up we went. And down we went again.
And when we finally saw some mani stones, we kinda knew that we were nearing Toktok already. My this private porter was pretty good in his initiative. Despite his apparent deficiency in communicating in English, he always made it a point to point out at the houses whenever we came to a particular village and reminded me of the name of that village. That was in a major way, how I was able to roughly remember my villages. Of course, after Geotagging my photos, I compared their exact location on Google Earth/Map/Eye to the Lukla relief map to give myself the final confirmation of our location.
Yupe... Toktok was finally in sight. I could remember this sign saying that we were in Toktok and were seeing some don't know what Hydro-power kind of things.
