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Hello there friends, family, and loved ones once again, this is the Trekkers checking in from the happy kingdom of Ne- almost said the wrong word there – from Bhutan! We’re having a great time.

We actually got to go into the Dzong of Chezo today. We were able to enjoy being admitted to the inner sanctum of the monastery and got to see some very elaborate thankas and statues, made a contribution, headed up the trail, found a meditation cave of Guru Rinpoche where we had lunch below it and some of our staff members went up to the cave itself and paid their respects. Then we moved up the valley on an old flood plain from a previous GLOF.

Does everybody know what a GLOF is? That’s a glacial lake outburst flood and these GLOFs are pretty important up in this area because if you’re in the way of one when it happens, you will be no more. We saw the devastation all the way up the valley. Boulders the size of houses just rolled down the valley when the moraine dam broke below the lake and it flooded all the way downstream, all the way down to the capital. Pretty amazing devastation. So we invited a hydrologist over for tea and got informed on every aspect in detail, and you can just quiz any one of us, we know more about GLOFs than you can shake your stick at.

Anyway, team’s fine. We’re looking at a rest day tomorrow, something where we can shower and clean our clothes, and also go to a hike up to one of these lakes that from time to time blow out and flood the valley and that’ll be our outing for the day; and maybe even visit the shops of Thanza which we are just outside the city limits of.

So stay tuned for the further adventures of happy people in the happy kingdom. Ta ta for now!

Hello there friends, family, and loved ones, these are the Trekkers in Bhutan and we’re reporting in.

It’s evening time and we just finished a great meal. People are in high spirits. We had another spectacular day. We saw mountains, waterfalls, villages, and lots of yaks. We seemed to be in sort of a yak herd parade today.

Wow, pretty much it, been fun! (laughter in background) Stay tuned for tomorrow.

Oh, all doing well. I think I mentioned that, but if not, we’re all doing well. We’re at 3,800 meters above sea level. Ta ta for now!

Hello there friends, family, and loved ones Trekkers in Bhutan. We’re reporting in from a lovely campsite.

We’ve had a spectacular day. We got to see lots of mountains, lots of waterfalls, and lots of tree roots. But in the meantime, we all made it up here in good spirits and looking forward to going over the pass tomorrow, so stay tuned.

We are now presently camped at about 4,000 meters above sea level and looking forward to another snappy dinner. Did I mention we had pizza last night, wow was that good!

So in the meantime, ta ta for now!

Friends, family, and loved ones, this is a continuation.

And we are all fine, all well, a little bit tired and we’re going to be heading for bed. We just had a seven course meal including pizza and we’re really, really happy. And tomorrow we’re going to be heading down the valley and then up to a small town called Woche.

So stay tuned for the further adventures for the Bhutan Trekkers!

Hello there friends, family, and loved ones, this is the Trekkers reporting in from the happy kingdom of Bhutan.

We’ve made our way over a very high pass after sleeping at our highest altitude yet. We went up to 5,100 meters above sea level, hung our prayer flags across and took photos and started our descent, a descent of over a thousand meters down the moraine and down a sheer wall. Roots, rocks, mud, and lots of horses that were doing trading up in Tibet had passed us by, and through the process had some spectacular views of turquoise lakes and rivers… (transmission garbled then cuts out).