After some breakfast and repacking we left Namche Bazar around 8 am. Along the way we got to another town at about 4000m, and our guide asked us how we felt. Neither of us had any issues with the altitude there and we were both feeling like we could deal with a longer walk to make up for the lost day yesterday. So we decided to move on to Phortse Tenga for lunch, but then keep going to Dolay. We had some interesting water crossings to make today, thanks to the downpours yesterday. One staircase was pretty well under a waterfall. Several parts of the path had rivers running over them. And there were herds of Yak being herded along the path which we had to make room for and wait to pass. Still, with a decent walking speed we got to Phortse Tenga by about 11:30 for lunch. I had a nice fried rice, but Kempy had Bok-choy noodles with egg. These turned out to be 2 minute noodles, deep-fried, with a couple of leaves of bok-choy and an omlette on top. It may also have had some yak cheese in it which Kempy appears to dislike. All in all a bad meal with too much grease which made him feel a bit queezy all afternoon. Another two hours of (mostly upwards) hiking and we got to Dolay. Here the lodge we are staying at was pretty much full – only downstairs rooms, normally for guides and porters, remained. So we’re in a quaint, all be it noisy, room. In the common room we met a couple we’d bumped into on the way already – Travis from Darwin and Nelly from France. We chatted for hours and over dinner. Travis bought Nelly a birthday pancake with honey, which we shared with them. They’re traveling on their own, for 6 weeks, around Nepal. Nelly was feeling the AMS a bit so we gave them some of our massive store of Diamox which seemed to improve her a bit. At some point the conversation turned to cards and I spent the next hour or so doing card tricks, much to the entertainment of some of the locals and our porter. This post is a bit out of order, but I had to describe my dinner too: At Travis and Nellys recommendation, I tried the vegetable spring roll… Well, it was essentially spring roll ingredients wrapped in some home-made dough, in a pasty kind of shape. It was both different and delicious. Eventually it got lateish and we retreated to bed. It’s cold here, so for the first time the sleeping bag doesn’t feel too warm and sweaty, but rather comfortably toasty.