Marpha to Jomson (2600 m)

A more easy trek as the main roads are cool to walk, and not much up and downs. Soon one reach's Jhomson, with a mini airport for helicopters flying to Muktinatha, Tsarang or Loh Mantang. But the most flights leaving and coming from Pokhara and Kathmandu. We just have to pass trough this mini village and get some more food items, some sunblockers etc. Cira wants to burn a CD or DVD with his photos on it, as his digi-card from the camera is allready full. I have more then 8 GB Photo cards with me, so there is no problem. The only scarry thing is for me that after trekking of more then 10 days without electricity landing on Damodar Kund that my batteries collapse. Anyhow....
There is right now a powercut here in Jhomson, even we had the luck to find a place where one medium old computer stands, and the charge for burning a CD goes in $... Waiting is ok and normal in asia if you want something special, i go and look a bit around to explore this funny village. The little street market here is a potpourri of different cultures from indias bollywood cassettes to nepali shoes up to chinese noodles and other food items from there. One can see that tibetans from occupied tibet/china come to jomson to make some money while selling stuff from there. Then you see landing the helicopters or mini airplanes on a sandy land area, and many indians come for the trek to muktinatha.
The more rich ones book a flight straight to Muktinatha Ksetra, as helicopters can land next to the temple there nowadays.
We get our cira with the CD after one hour of waiting and we trek further to aim Kagbeni tonight. Jomson has 3 nice temples or shrines, two for Ganesh (see pic, in front of the Ganesh shrine the Moushika Vahana (mouse) is surrounded with many salagramas from pilgrims left behind) and one for Devi. Lot of hotels and some Dharamsalas for cheap stay over night. The sun is strong here and we come down again to walk inside the riverbed of Sri Gandaki devi.