High up on the slopes above the Gokyo Valley, in a little guest house (yak herder's hut with a platform added for trekkers to sleep in), I was offered the house's one and only menu. I was charmed, then mystified, by the spelling—why would someone spell Pepsi “Papshi”? Did they try to spell it phonetically, and if so is that how they pronounced it?

Oh well. Nothing like a little Gralik Shop (garlic soup, I presume?) to warm me up on a cold Himalayan morning!

Incidentally—the prices are in Nepali rupees, which then were going fifty to the U.S. dollar.

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All images ©2002-2003 by Dietrich Neuman