{"id":10624,"date":"2013-09-17T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10624"},"modified":"2013-09-17T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T18:33:30","slug":"dolpo-expedition-hits-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/17\/dolpo-trek\/dolpo-expedition-hits-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolpo Expedition Hits The Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2013<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10624 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-team-visits-Bhaktipur.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10624]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-team-visits-Bhaktipur-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-team-visits-Bhaktipur-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-team-visits-Bhaktipur-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-team-visits-Bhaktipur-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-team-visits-Bhaktipur-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10625'>\n\t\t\t\tThe team visits Bhaktipur.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shopping-for-thangka-paintings.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10624]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shopping-for-thangka-paintings-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shopping-for-thangka-paintings-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shopping-for-thangka-paintings-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shopping-for-thangka-paintings-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shopping-for-thangka-paintings-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10626'>\n\t\t\t\tShopping for thangka paintings\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>IMG guide Adam Angel reports from Kathmandu that the team had a fun day today visiting the ancient town of Bhaktipur, to the east of Kathmandu. Bhaktipur is famous for incredible woodcarving and the team was also able to do some shopping for thangka paintings.\u00c2\u00a0 This evening they headed to the famous Boudhanath stupa in Kathmandu, and tomorrow morning they will fly to Nepalgunj in western Nepal tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ang Jangbu reports that our head cook Jor Bahadur and the kitchen staff have made it to Dunai this afternoon. They had left Kathmandu on September 10th, drove to the road head at Solabung in Rukum and then walked 5 days from there to Dunai.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, our sirdar, Lopsang Sherpa, flew into Masinechaur airport on the Goma Air flight this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 He will organize the local porters and be ready to meet the team when they arrive. So far, so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2013 IMG guide Adam Angel reports from Kathmandu that the team had a fun day today visiting the ancient town of Bhaktipur, to the east of Kathmandu. Bhaktipur is famous for incredible woodcarving and the team was also able to do some shopping for thangka paintings.\u00c2\u00a0 This evening they headed to the famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dolpo-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10629,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions\/10629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}