Tilicho Lake BC 4150m to Yak Kharka 4050m (17km)

It was the first time the sky was cloudy when I woke up. The first time since I am in Nepal. And this had immediate impact on the temperature. It was quite chilly although the sun was up when we started walking back the path we came on two days before. Our next destination was Yak Kharka, so that we used a little short cut and did not have to go back to Manang.

Along the way we saw a couple of Capricorns (I think it was those or some other mountain goat like animals).

It was pretty much up and down again until we got to the place where we chose the short cut. It was a path that was certainly "nepali flat" (little but up, little bit down). We passed through an old abandoned town (Old Khangsar) that looked like Machu Picchu (verified by my Chilean trekking friend Mattias).
It was a bit spooky so we just took a short break before the Yeti was going to get us.
The next point of interest along the path was a viewpoint at 4200m that would give us a nice view over the Manang valley.

A quick break there and we wasted all the efforts spent on getting up there by walking back down 400m to a bridge as we had to cross the river to the other side of the valley. There we had lunch. The place was called Nirvana, but although we reached it we had to push on. Up the valley again (not quite 400 meters this time) and long the valley to Yak Kharka.

We were thinking, that we were quite lucky as it got more and more cloudy but we have not gotten in the rain yet.

It wasn't that far to go now and we were in Yak Kharka, or rather just before where we stopped at a small guest house called "Yak Hotel".

It was run by a very nice man and a helper. Before dinner we indulged ourselves in Yak Cheese and local Nepalese whiskey ("Signiture" it was called and it was surprisingly smooth).

Once the sun was gone we all gathered around the fireplace (oven) and spend the rest of the evening with telling/listening to stories, playing cards and eating dinner.

It was very cozy and relaxed and got even more so when it started snowing around 8pm (or so we thought).

We were all quite excited about the prospect of a little layer of white on the mountains in the morning for our next part of the trek.