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Myths and legends

Himalayas - a place there many legends lives. More precisely, in the Himalayas there are a huge number of places about which fantastic things are told. Of course, these legends leave their mark on the impressions about traveling to these places, and even sometimes form them. In my opinion, preparing for the Great Himalayan Trail without exploring these legends would be inferior. And moreover, I am ready to make adjustments to the route in order to visit a number of legendary places.

The small village of Machhermo is known for having an yeti incident near to it. 

Locals say that in the relatively recent 1974, a girl grazed yaks near this village. Suddenly sh...

Sherpas (“people from the east”) moved from the town of Kham in Tibet to the southwest, fleeing the Mongol invasion, and did not plan to cross the Himalayan ridge. However, the...

Gokyo Lakes is a chain of freshwater lakes not far from the eight-thousander Chou-Yu, at an altitude of 4700 - 5000m above sea level. It is believed that this is the highest mountain lake ...

Pangboche is the oldest settlement of the Sherpa people and the highest altitude permanently inhabited place in Khumbu (alt...

Khumbu district is inhabited mainly by sherpas. Sherpas are people who moved to the Khumbu Valley from Tibet more than 500 ...

Between the villages of Kumjung and Kundle there is a Manu wall (the wall that is built like a wall with prayer drums, or simply like a wall of stones with prayers carved on them). Local p...

On the way to the Everest base camp there is a very famous and revered Tengboche monastery, which is the center of Sherpa culture. 35 monks lives in the monastery, this is the largest mona...


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