I hope I don’t bore you showing Yak photos but I couldn’t resist on those beauties shortly after leaving Periche.
 

Every now and then we encounter gates like this one which ar suppsed to keep bad spirits from entering. This gate had also very rich ornaments inside.

Hiking further down we crossed the tree line so we could walk sometimes in nice tree shadow. Temperatures are rising and spring is upon us.

Finally we reached our lodge for that night (again called Himalayan Hotel) which is right beside a monastery. Looking back we could see Mt. Everest again (small tip above a mountain ridge with a cloud plume to the right)

Rising up on a nearby hill there were numerous prayer flags:

Although it is supposed to go down because wee are on our descent now it is of course not true for the whole trek. The last part took us ‘a little bit up’ (that’s how our guide said it) to reach Tenboche at 3860 m (12660 ft). So again at the end everybody was pretty tired.