May 21 and 22,
2014
After having a
bad-night sleep, we were awakened by the heavy steps of our hosts at 5 am. They
were marching to prepare the breakfast for us for which they had to bring the
yak dung in, make the fire, and cook. Unlike dinner, we had a not-so-good
breakfast: four eggs over fried in god knows what kind of oil with a lot of
salt, so much so that for about two hours after breakfast, we could still feel
some kind of upset stomach.
On a more
positive note, as we were slowly gaining elevation, we were enjoying a tail
wind all morning on a flat, straight road; then, in 4150 meters, we started coasting
down slowly to Morghab in 3600 meters. We found a hotel, or the only hotel in
Morghab, and checked in for $12 each. It's a nice hotel with decent food. After
taking a shower and having some good food, we met some tourists: a guy from
France traveling on a motorbike, a young guy from Japan traveling by bus, and a
cyclist, Radu, from Romania who had started his trip from Romania to go to
Bishkek and climb a 7500-meter- high mountain and bike back home.
The next day, we
woke up at 5 again. I guess it was impossible to kick the habit of waking up at
dawn. We tossed and turned in bed until the cafe was open and we had some good
breakfast. We, then, went to the Bazar to see if we could find some kind of
gloves for me because mine were not warm enough for this condition. When I say
Bazar or market, I mean a group of tractor-trailer containers with in a row on
the side of the town. The only pair of gloves I could find was not water proof.
Well, I bought them and applied some grease on top of them to make them water
proof.
The weather on
our rest day in Morghab was very changeable: sunny, snowy, and blizzard. We sat
in our hotel room and watched the weather change from the window, wishing to
have good weather the next day.
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