At morning twilight, I had the whole view of Mr. Nilgiri from my room, but right after the sunrisethe upper half of the mountain was covered by thick clouds which were moving fast to eastward . It had strong wind. The temperature was low. Gloves were needed when I was out from the hotel.
| I visited the Mustang ECO-MUSEUM at 10:00. Dr. Tsuchida recommended me to see it but he did not explain me what it was. I paid 50 rupees as an entrance fee. A female receptionist (probably a curator) guided me the museum. First she took me to an exhibition panel of Ekai Kawaguchi, a Japanese priest who smuggled in the Tibet from Nepal in 1899. |
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Then I was in a big hall where portraits of Buddah and his deciples were exhibited. At the library, they collected many books related to Nepal and Mustang ( name of a county, of which Jomson is the county town) from all over the world which include books in Japanese. They collected many herbs in Mustan region. A specimen of crane which fly over Himlayan moutinas up to north in spring or down to south in autumn is exhibited. They collected valuable materials by their extraordinay effots but they have not published results of their study yet. The museum had no broucher at all.
On my way back I waited for a tractor at OM'‚“ restaurant. But as it did not come down, I walked back to the hotel by climbing up steep slope.
As Dr. Tsuchida (a consultant to the investors to this hotel) inspected the hotel facilities, I followed him and found the super deluxe room had a superior view of the moutains and was well equipped. The room charge is 250 US dollars. It is not so expensive when you compare with hotels in New York but the problem is that few people want to stay here.
The trekkers came back safely at 16:30. Two of them suffered from altitude sickness (Mr. Matsuoka and a lady. Mr. Mtsuoka suffered a little but the lady recovered soon. They said that they could see wonderful view of moutains in Himalayan blue sky yesterday. The mountains changed their facial expression every minute. The returning trip was not enjoyable as yesterday because of the weather.
An European lady walked up there alone without taking any porter. Meanwhile there was a group who employed many porters to carry lots of goods just like moveing their homes. There were varieties of trekking, The most of trekkers were Europeans and American, they said.
