Day 4: Side hike to prayer flags

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Distance: 2 km
Time: 1 hour
Night: Trekker's Lodge, Tengboche

Start elevation (Tengboche): 3,861 m
Max elevation (prayer flags): 4,368 m
End elevation (Tengboche): 3,861 m
Total ascent / descent: 507 m / 507 m
Elevation gain: 0 m

Getting too excited about the monastery, monks, prayers and our blessing in Tengboche, we have completely forgotten about a short side hike we were supposed to do from here.

From the Gompa you can take a side trip hiking above Tengboche following a line of prayer flags strung up on poles. The further you climb the more incredible the views including a Chorten very high up on the ridge.*

Buddhist prayer flags line a trail that winds up behind Tengboche, with a nice view back down towards the town. Photograph: Only A Day Away.

The views are really incredible above Tengboche including Ama Dablam & Mt. Everest hiding behind the Lhotse Wall & the Thamserku-Kangtaiga glacier. You can also view the EBC trail across the river valley leading to Pangboche.*

Following the path up first you reach chorten at Tengboche Ri (4,198 m), then continue up to the prayer stones and another chorten at the High Point (4,368 m).