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Khumbu ~ 14 place "Gîte de Sejour"

We have named the largest part of the Gîte Le Lauvitel “KHUMBU” after the region around Everest. Here you will be well looked after in true Sherpa style enjoying good food and good company in a beautiful setting.

Other rooms at Gite Le Lauvitel
“Dauphiné” 11 - 13 beds
“Snowdonia" 6 - 10 beds

 

Khumbu

The large sitting room/dining room is very light and has a triple aspect – over the Oisans valley to Le Grand Pic de la Belledonne, up the Vénéon valley towards the Aiguille du Plat de la Selle, and across our garden to the steep slopes leading up the Aiguille de Venosc.

It is here that you will be served International cuisine with good French wines. As in a Chambres d’Hôte, you all sit down to eat together (between 7.00 and 7.30pm) in a convivial atmosphere. There is a three course set meal but if you have specific requirements let us know in advance and we will be happy to see how we can accommodate you. After supper, relax in front of the fire with a drink……

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Bar

The bar at the entrance to Khumbu is at the centre of the whole Gîte. There is a small terrace overlooking the garden, where you can watch passers-by on their way up to the lake. It is frequented by a few regulars who have a mine of local history more or less at their finger tips and who, after looking you up and down, may decide to take you into their confidence with a “Bien sur que si! ” or a “Bien sur que non!” as they explain how they had to walk down to Les Ougiers to go to school, or the dangers of badgers. However, two secrets are sacrosanct - where they find their mushrooms and where the Génépi grows.

Garden

Opposite the Gîte we have a large garden, with a fountain and a number of tilleul trees which offer shade. In the summer we serve lunch and ice-creams, bilberry tarts, and beer and soft drinks from a small wooden chalet in the garden. It’s an ideal place to unwind and feel pleased with oneself after an outing on the hills. Feel free to spend a day there reading or planning your next adventure.
In the winter the garden is only really suited to snowball fights. When there is a new snow fall a snow plough clears the road up to La Danchère early each morning. Although the surrounding fields remain snow-bound, the Gîte is South facing and so even in Winter it is often possible to eat outside on the terrace in fine weather.

Thyangboche Monastery in Khumbu

“ Many years later I became used to the way in which Sherpas would enter the house of a stranger and take it over. They did so now. They carried embers from the fire to another part of the floor, breathed on them with those bellows Sherpas have for lungs, and soon we were sitting holding our hands out to the blaze. Slowly we undressed, drank tea out of china and copper bowls and warmed up.” Charles Evans
  Chuck Evans & Caroline Purkhardt,
SARL Le Lauvitel,
La Danchere, Venosc, France +33 (0)4 76 80 06 77 French and English spoken
Fax +33 (0)4 86 17 20 74
 
 

1 of the bedrooms Sitting area in the main gite Fire in communal oven