Stunning photons! Thanks for sharing. Looks like you had a fantastic trip.
I was in Nepal with my husband a couple years ago in March/April. Our aim was to do what you did, but clockwise. We walked in to Namche Bazaar (6 days or so of hard walking), rather than fly in to Lukla. Each time we went over a pass, it was super cloudy, so we missed most of the good views on the way up. At Gokyo it was full on snow everywhere, no beautiful reflections on the lake. Gokyo Ri was a walk up on snow, and we did have great weather that day, and great views. At that point dh was tired of being cold all the time and of the general conditions, so instead of doing the loop, we headed back on the other side of the valley. We trekked for 16 days instead of the planned 21. That was enough for us. I guess our attention span for trekking was shorter than I had thought it would be. Perhaps flying into Lukla would have been a better choice for us.
Dh got sick on the way up, I got sick on the way down (boy does that wipe you out completely), and I got sick once again on our return flight home. Unfortunately I had antibiotics with me in my hand luggage, but it was giardia, and the anti-fungals were in our checked luggage. Very unpleasant, not just for me, but for everyone around me! We used iodine for our water, but it's most likely that the GI problems came from the food. One day we saw a woman in a field collecting yak dung with bare hands, and the next time we saw her was when she was serving our lunch about an hour later.
Sorry you had to spend 3 nights in Lukla, that must have been tough. We were lucky to only spend 1 night, and got away on the last flight the following day. 20 minutes later, we covered what took 6 days on the way on!!
