Travel Day 1013 – Extended Langtang Trek, NEPAL
04/15 Nagthali via Thuman and Dalphedi to Timure (1760)
After a terrible night of freezing cold and stomach sickness, paired with a crazy loud thunderstorm outside, we had a little bit of a slow start of the day and we decided to rather take it easy today…
Walk to Thuman and Timure, Nepal
So we opted for an extended breakfast in the sun with some amazing mountain views. I was unfortunately only able to chew on some cold, boiled potatoes, but at least I was happy that they stayed inside and they eventually brought me though the long day of walking as well. Luckily after all the steep uphill climbs yesterday, today was a nice day of walking downhill all day long, even if we eventually had to find out that downhill walking in the heat of the day could be an exhausting experience as well…
This was especially true because we had to climb down a steep trail, over 800 meters in altitude to reach the nice Tamang village of Thuman with its old Tibetan Gompa. Actually the Tamang people were originally Tibetan horse traders (sometimes also referred to as horse warriors) who used to migrate back and forth between Tibet and the lowlands of Nepal. Eventually they settled in the Himalaya region where they can still be found today. The Tamangs are considered as one of the oldest tribes of Nepal with their roots even tracing back to the ancient people of Mongolia…
Tamang Stone Village of Thuman, Nepal
Anyway, the stone village of Thuman reminded us pretty much of Gatlang, only that here the houses were more spread out, leaving space for small fields in-between. This gave Thuman a little bit more of a country village feel, while Gatlang felt rather like a village town with its cluster like house arrangements and the little stone alleyways between the residences. But the fact that Thuman had a centrally located Buddhist Gompa with a little raised square in front of it, overlooking the valley was a definite bonus…
We spent more than an hour in Thuman, walking around and having a tea in one of the many guesthouses, before we carried on towards Dalphedi. It was actually possible to go down to the valley directly and then climb up to Briddhim within the same day, but we rather wanted to go further north to Timure and the Tibetan Border first, before we would come back up to Briddhim some time tomorrow. And so we continued on a rather level, but still exhausting path for two hours until we reached Dalphedi…
Old Buddhist Gompa in Thuman, Nepal
The village of Dalphedi wasn’t much to write home about and it only consisted of a few houses, but we had the chance to visit a local school and talk to the teacher as well as some kids and that was still a pretty nice experience. Afterwards we had to walk another hour and about 550 meters down to the river and cross it towards a newly built road. The road was actually not even shown on my map and apparently it only existed for the past one year, but it made the rest of our walk to Timure as fast as it made it boring…
Timure itself appeared to be another nice Tamang village that was only partially modernized and most of its old infrastructure was still pretty well intact. Now that there was a road, it was probably only a matter of time until that would change, but for now, Timure made a great place to stop for the night and to explore the Tibetan Border tomorrow morning…
Find all Day 04 – to Timure Photos here.
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